{"id":4189,"date":"2014-03-14T10:37:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T15:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2014-03-15T11:29:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T16:29:25","slug":"notations-on-note-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/2014\/03\/14\/notations-on-note-taking\/","title":{"rendered":"Notations on Note-Taking"},"content":{"rendered":"

The value of note-taking can be enhanced if your notes are taken mindfully, rather than merely routinely. That’s to say, annotating technical notes while they’re still fresh and prompting new insights can extend their reach and value.<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>We’re glad to see T. R. Girill\u00a0pick up on the value of mindful note-taking in a post on edutopia<\/a>. He reminds us that Henry David Thoreau’s artfully taken field notes on the flowering times 0f 500 plants near Concord, MA, in 1851-58 “are still used today for comparison with current climate-change data.”<\/p>\n

Even so, as Girill adds, though most notes are made for use by the note-taker only, they can have enhanced value by being promptly perused and expanded on virtually on-the-spot. Don’t do anything, one might add, simply to risk letting it go stale.<\/p>\n

Girill’s reference is to Erick Greene’s chaper (Ch. 12) in Michael R. Canfield’s book on Field Notes on Science and Nature (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011). Greene is a biology professor at the University of Montana, who urges science students, Girill observes, “to widen the scope of their note-taking to extend beyond just observations or numerical data” to include such enhancements as memory and organizational aids, commentary, interpretation and conjecture.<\/p>\n

There’s no time like when the pen is “hot” to dash off such additional insights. That’s know as being truly engaged in your work. Jot down your enhancements in the margin of your page, or wherever there’s white space to profit from.\u00a0\u2013 Doug Bedell<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The value of note-taking can be enhanced if your notes are taken mindfully, rather than merely routinely. That’s to say, annotating technical notes while they’re still fresh and prompting new insights can extend their reach and value. We’re glad to see T. R. Girill\u00a0pick up on the value of mindful note-taking in a post on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t