How to Take Good Notes - The 6 Areas of Knowledge Extraction
1Notes act effectively as a filter, helping you to concentrate and prioritise key areas of importance while disregarding irrelevant padding. 2They provide a quick reference for exam revision. 3Because they are your own unique interpretation of information, they are in themselves memorable. 4They aid understanding. 5They facilitate an overview of a
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Write exactly one note for each idea and write as if you were writing for someone else: Use full sentences, disclose your sources, make references and try to be as precise, clear and brief as possible.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
Writing notes is really pretty easy, once you get the hang of it. And it’s a way of proving to yourself (and eventually, to others) that you’ve understood the text. Our notes can also provide us some clues into what in a text actually interested us. Where a source’s ideas really excite us, notes will cluster. Even so, we should try to write a separ
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