I am already reading 4 books currently and I started on another one bringing it to 5.
But this is a good one.
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
by Sönke Ahrens
I have only read the introduction and I am in full agreement with it.
He begins by quoting Luhmann, "One cannot think without writing."
Ah...Niklas Luhmann is very well-known in his circle of community and the book is based on his way of note taking: the slip box.
Here are some more of what I found in the introduction that so interesting that I'm looking forward to digging in further over the weekend:
Writing is not what follows research, learning or studying, it is the medium of all this work. And maybe that is the reason why we rarely think about this writing, the everyday writing, the note-taking and draft-making. Like breathing, it is vital to what we do, but because we do it constantly, it escapes our attention.
Just having it all in your head is not enough, as getting it down on paper is the hard bit. That is why good, productive writing is based on good note-taking. Getting something that is already written into another written piece is incomparably easier than assembling everything in your mind and then trying to retrieve it from there.
The quality of a paper and the ease with which it is written depends more than anything on what you have done in writing before you even made a decision on the topic.
pearlie
