College students listen up! This tip is going to change your life when it comes to gathering and comprehending the right information for your classes. Aren’t you tired of endlessly skimming through books trying to figure out what you need to know for an exam? Or forgetting what you read days after you close the book? Consider this…
Efficient and necessary highlighting.
It can be very easy to get crazy adding color to our books, especially if they aren’t the most interesting. Some students don’t highlight enough due to lack of reading, comprehension, or maybe just laziness…Others tend to over highlight, which can be just as ineffective. In the lesson slides for Module 4, we learned about mindless highlighting. The module (Slide 7) provides a video from Professor Stephen Chew that walks you through how to highlight in an efficient manner and process the information “deeply.” After you watch it and before you start your next reading/study think about this…
Link to Module 4 Lesson: https://osu.instructure.com/courses/91565/pages/references-module-4?module_item_id=4996991
-How do you decide what to highlight or underline?
-What system do you have in place for reviewing the material you highlighted/underlined?
Try to practice these with your classes! Happy highlighting…but not too happy. 😉