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"Taking Notes on Philosophical Texts" - 0 views

www.earlham.edu/...notes.htm

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shared by Laurent P on 02 May 15 - Cached
  • make your question explicit in your notes.
  • Making your conjectures explicit in your notes can be as beneficial as making your questions explicit
  • Don't limit yourself to what you know. Write down what you don't understand but hope to understand. Write down your questions and your conjectures. Put your finger on interpretation problems, not just on interpretation results. Make note of passages to reread.
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  • shouldn't merely record the results of your understanding, but should become part of the process of understanding.
  • John Newman method. Let the top of page 10 be 10.1, the bottom 10.9, and the middle 10.5, and so on for other intermediate positions on the page
  • Take notes on the similarities and differences between the author you are now reading and authors you have previously read.
  • I use my initials to label my own intrusions on the author's position.
  • If your notes on a book are generally thorough, but your notes for a particular chapter are skimpy, then jot an explicit warning to yourself about the skimpy coverage of that chapter
  • Consider keeping a philosophical journal. This is not a diary about daily events or a notebook for reading and class notes. It's a laboratory where your own thoughts can grow. It will help your note-taking in many ways. First, it will give you an outlet for thoughts that might not belong among your reading notes. Second, it will give you practice in articulation and analysis that will pay off in your note-taking and all your other writing. Third, it will raise your consciousness about issues that you might well encounter in your reading.
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