How come that taking notes using sentences is then elementary and effective? How does it tie to our ways of thinking and communicating? Under what circumstances is it worth using this method? Read our new article.

In our everyday lives, nosotros probably don't tend to think too often about the fashion we express our thoughts. We don't call up of the means we communicate with each other, the words we use or the class of communication (which communicator!) we adopt. It merely happens, equally if naturally – language arranges our thoughts and expressions into sentences. They in turn organise our communication and requite it pregnant. Organising statements and paying attention to sentences are features of the note-taking method called the sentence method. Equally its name would suggest, information technology consists in taking notes in the form of sentences – recording statements, arranging data, writing downwards stories – that ever end with a full cease.

The sentence gives club to the meaning

The biggest advantage of the sentence method is that the significant of a statement written downward as a sentence – and not just a collection of words – is oft clearer and easier to decipher. This has obvious consequences with regard to the ease of absorbing and consolidating data.

Note-taking using the sentence method doesn't hateful transcribing the entire argument ‒ it entails rather the dynamic selection of data at the stage of listening and immediately writing it down. Notes produced in this way are simplified and ready for instant review and verification.

Pronouncing a sentence is hard

Note-taking using this method turns out helpful when we take to deal with a statement divided into longer batches ‒ lectures, podcasts or presentations. In do, it'south best to write downward each new thought (fact or topic etc.) in a separate line and to systematically number them. Once we're done, we should immediately review the notes and figure out which information is the most of import, and which can be skipped.

The biggest disadvantage of this note-taking method is the revision of the written textile. The legibility of the notes decreases sharply together with their corporeality, which is why it'south worth re-writing the numbered sentences into a new place, taking into account the connections between them. This makes visualising the connections between the sentences easier and facilitates the consolidation of data.