There, I had no access to an original of the professor's lecture, so I had to listen carefully, capture what I thought was important, and then afterwards review my own notes and highlight what I thought was critical to my learning. This approach for written material (described above) evolved from a practice, over many years at university, of taking lecture notes. I'm not sure if this will work for you, but I believe you need some way to distance yourself from the original text, so that you don't use it as a crutch when attempting to write down the thought that originally caught your attention. In doing so, I may even introduce some of my own thoughts into the zettel I'm forcing myself to remember what I read, to think about it, and then to write my own version of the idea.
When I come back to it, I read through my notes and select a few that I want to incorporate into a zettel, and write that zettel without reference to the original material.
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But I try to read a full article or a few chapters in a book, taking very short bullet point notes as I go along (those can be hand-written or typed). My approach has evolved over time and is still evolving. I find that if I try to read a paragraph and then somehow summarize or restate it in my own words, the result is very unsatisfying. This is a really good question and one with which I think most of us struggle at one point or another. Not that it helps.Īm I missing something? Can you tell me how can I write a zettel note without copying from the text or write it in my own said:Īm I missing something? Can you tell me how can I write a zettel note without copying from the text or write it in my own words? Note that I write my zettel notes in Romanian so when I read a text in English I translate it in Romanian. Or I could write the note as if I explained it to my mom.īut the problem is that I could easily forget some piece of information while writing from memory, or I wouldn't get a lot of thoughts while reading, or I would explain what I had read without really understanding the text. Or I could simply read the text and not bother with the information within and just write my thoughts that could come into my mind. I could first read a paragraph, then close the book, then rewrite some ideas from memory without looking at the text. How can I write it as a note in my own words? Should I write it in my own words to begin with? A theory is not scientific if it is irrefutable". In other words, the theory must predict not only what will happen but also what will not happen. To the principle of falsifiability-the idea that a scientific theory must be stated in such a way that it is possible to refute or disconfirm it. So let's say that I read "Research methods and statistics" by Sherri Jackson and see a passage which states that "When empirically solvable problems are studied, they are always open Most of the time I just copy a passage with minor changes or I translate an English passage as if I copied it. But I have never understood what it means to write notes in your own words. I have heard that zettel notes should be written in one's own words.
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