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Library on Mars - What, Why
2Look out for the central message, and when you think you’ve located it you have a starting point for your Mind Map. Read on with an open, enquiring mind and try to bring the text alive by using your creative imagination. 3Try not to read passively. Think things through and question the logic behind various statements. If you play an active role du
... See moreDominic O'Brien • How to Pass Exams: Accelerate Your Learning, Memorise Key Facts, Revise Effectively
Without external help of any sort, you go to work on the book. With nothing but the power of your own mind, you operate on the symbols before you in such a way that you gradually lift yourself from a state of understanding less to one of understanding more. Such elevation, accomplished by the mind working on a book, is highly skilled reading, the k
... See moreCharles Van Doren • How to Read a Book
As yet another scholarly excerpter, the Jesuit Jeremias Drexel, put it, Notae propriae, notae optimae: ‘your own notes are the best notes’. Finally, the well-arranged common-place functioned as a kind of externalised memory, which, as historian Ann Blair notes, ‘liberated the reader from the task of memorising the selected passages’. This in turn ‘
... See moreRoland Allen • The Notebook
The challenge of analytical reading is simply this: “If time’s not an object, how thoroughly would you read this book?”