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post Mar 12 2009, 08:22 AM
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what do you do to take notes as you read?

i usually always underline, but last night i decided to get hi-lighters and hi-lighted up my bio print-outs and now i'm going back to review all the massive amounts of info i was supposed to absorb and all i can think about is "oooh, colors pretty" and i'm completely missing the words sad.gif

anyways, i think i'm gonna go back to underlines and margin notes.
 
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post Mar 12 2009, 08:24 AM
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Underlining. It looks more 'clean' in the end. It's also less distracting. I don't understand the people that will switch between every color highlighter to differentiate rank in what's more important. Having one pen or one pencil is less confusing.
 
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post Mar 12 2009, 12:10 PM
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i do both. i'm obsessive with my notes like that. it's the only thing that i'm remotely ocd about.
 
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post Mar 12 2009, 12:14 PM
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i have to underline. i go way too far overboard with a highlighter and wanna highlight just to be highlighting.



something about marking in books is really fun to me, so i tend to go overboard no matter what though.
 
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post Mar 12 2009, 12:28 PM
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I dislike underlining because in the end it looks like you underlined everything and that everything holds the same sort of importance. You can't differentiate between anything or find it later. Highlighters come in when you want to create a logical order and direct attention to certain areas.

Plus, if I don't make a perfectly straight line while highlighting, I won't be too annoyed.

Usually when I read I like to take separate notes on the side though. And that's where the underlining (mostly of titles) and hardcore highlighting really come out.
 
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post Mar 12 2009, 12:32 PM
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I've never highlighted my books... I just can't. I think it's the fact that I want to sell my textbooks after I'm done with them and that I wouldn't want to buy a book with pages full of highlighting. And with highlighting, I never know how much or how little to highlight! I would just end up highlighting the entire page hahaha.

Right now I kind of take notes on a separate piece of paper. It takes forever, which makes me very sad, but it helps me remember the concepts/terms better. As for my own notes, I underline key terms with highlighters. =P
 
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post Mar 12 2009, 12:40 PM
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i highlight my books, then read over my highlights and take notes in a separate notebook. then i go back to my notes and highlight and underline in my notes. D:


i iz crazy.
 
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post Mar 12 2009, 02:58 PM
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i like highlighting, i do underline or make little drawings sometimes to help me remember what's so important about it. but highlighting is the best ^__^
 
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post Mar 12 2009, 03:27 PM
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I don't highlight my books, because I sell them back and they don't want to buy books that are written in.

When I take notes I usually circle things, like main phrases. It looks less messy that way. If I were to highlight or underline I'd be tempted to do that to the whole paragraph, but if I circle a main word it's easier for me to reference when I'm doing my work and then I can just find what I'm looking for and read up on it.
 
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post Mar 12 2009, 07:51 PM
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QUOTE(karmakiller @ Mar 12 2009, 01:27 PM) *
I don't highlight my books, because I sell them back and they don't want to buy books that are written in.

When I take notes I usually circle things, like main phrases. It looks less messy that way.

Same here. Or I put a star next to it if it's a small phrase.
 
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post Mar 12 2009, 07:55 PM
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I either used highlighter or used brackets to section of excerpts. And marginalia, marginalia always and forever.
 
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post Mar 14 2009, 01:59 AM
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QUOTE(Joanne @ Mar 12 2009, 10:32 AM) *
I've never highlighted my books... I just can't. I think it's the fact that I want to sell my textbooks after I'm done with them and that I wouldn't want to buy a book with pages full of highlighting. And with highlighting, I never know how much or how little to highlight! I would just end up highlighting the entire page hahaha.

same here! i'll only highlight/underline (it doesn't matter which. it depends on what i happen to find lying around: highlighter or pen) books that are really cheap or if it's a novel we have to read that i'm only ever going to read once in my life.
 
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post Mar 14 2009, 09:15 AM
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I usually highlight things, in almost every book I read. I think highlighting is much easier to pick out when flipping through than underlining. But I almost always write notes in margins, too, to explain why I found something interesting enough to highlight, or just to make other notes about what I'm reading (such as if I like the writer's style, etc.).
 
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post Mar 14 2009, 09:57 AM
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QUOTE(hi-C @ Mar 12 2009, 08:55 PM) *
I either used highlighter or used brackets to section of excerpts. And marginalia, marginalia always and forever.

Haha, have you read that poem about marginalia? Some of my AP Lit classmates remarked that it sounds like a disease.

I always just underline my notes and perform marginalia.
 
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post Mar 14 2009, 10:55 AM
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By who? I've read Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" which has marginalia, but I don't think I've ever read a poem called "marginalia."
 
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post Mar 14 2009, 11:47 AM
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QUOTE(hi-C @ Mar 14 2009, 11:55 AM) *
By who? I've read Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" which has marginalia, but I don't think I've ever read a poem called "marginalia."

Billy Collins. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/marginalia/
 
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post Mar 14 2009, 01:51 PM
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I like to underline. Once, I had a highlighter-happy teacher, and he made us highlight EVERYTHING. So, I hated highlighting from then on.
 
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post Mar 14 2009, 01:59 PM
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QUOTE(brooklyneast05 @ Mar 12 2009, 12:14 PM) *
i have to underline. i go way too far overboard with a highlighter and wanna highlight just to be highlighting.
something about marking in books is really fun to me, so i tend to go overboard no matter what though.

lol i thought i was the only that wasnt to be trusted with a pen or marker near a book.
 

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