Natasha is taking notes on a speech about Chinese New Year. If she were to follow the recommendation of your textbook, she would

create a key-word outline

Explanation:

The key word outline refers to taking a paragraph of words or a speech and going sentence by sentence so as to extract the words that will make up the main and important idea. It means that a student or a person writes the main word or the key word for the entire sentence which provides the meaning of the sentence.

The keyword must contain the most important points of the sentence and should bring out the meaning of the sentence in one point.

Thus in the context, Natasha, a student should make a key word outline of the speech about the Chinese New Year for which she is taking notes of.

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