Summary of Sönke Ahrens's How to Take Smart Notes

Excerpt From Summary of Sönke Ahrens's How to Take Smart Notes



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A good structure allows you to seamlessly move from one task to another - without threatening the whole arrangement or losing sight of the bigger picture. It is something you can trust. It relieves you of the burden of remembering and tracking everything. If you can trust the system, you can let go of the attempt to hold everything together in your head and focus on what is important: the content, the argument and the ideas.



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Universities also try to turn students into planners, which is why it is so important to not let that happen to you. Good students struggle with their sentences and expressions because they care about finding the right one. It takes them longer to find a good idea to write about because they know from experience that the first idea is rarely that great and good questions rarely fall into their laps.