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
anyways, i think i'm gonna go back to underlines and margin notes.
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.
i do both. i'm obsessive with my notes like that. it's the only thing that i'm remotely ocd about.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 ^__^
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.
I either used highlighter or used brackets to section of excerpts. And marginalia, marginalia always and forever.
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.).
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."
I like to underline. Once, I had a highlighter-happy teacher, and he made us highlight EVERYTHING. So, I hated highlighting from then on.