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How To Take Good Notes: The science behind note-taking

How To Take Good Notes: The science behind note-taking

Georgakis, Angelos

Paperback

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ISBN10: 154823642X
ISBN13: 9781548236427
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 25 2017
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Why would I need a book on how to take notes? Notes are just notes! -- FALSE.

Scientists have found that note taking can be as mentally demanding as playing chess can be for an expert. While you take notes, you listen carefully to the lecturer, you process the new material, you organize it in your working memory, and you finally write down what you think is most important. All this happens while someone is talking at an average speed of three words per second and someone is writing down at an average speed of one-third of a word per second. It doesn't sound easy now, does it?

Notes are an important tool for learning. We don't take notes just to record a few facts so we can review them later. Learning happens as we take notes. Taking notes the right way leads to good study practices, better performance on exams, and long-term retention of information.

Note taking comes naturally. FALSE.

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