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Rewriting contemporary notes some time later adds another filter/interpretation to the information, and if you choose to remove or rewrite things that now don't
by linker3000 7y ago
Rewriting contemporary notes some time later adds another filter/interpretation to the information, and if you choose to remove or rewrite things that now don't seem relevant or accurate (rather than checking with the information giver), there's a risk that the notes become diluted or lose details that are re-graded as unimportant but later turn out to be the opposite.
Always best to write good, efficient, consistently-styled notes once, and annotate changes/corrections on them if they are needed. It saves time too!
- logifail 7y ago> Rewriting contemporary notes some time later adds [...] interpretation to the information.. Isn't this a fairly crucial part of "learning"?
- linker3000 7y agoSure, write up stuff that supports your referral back to the original notes, or makes corrections and additions - but don't get rid of the original notes or replace them with interpreted copies.
- logifail 7y agoThe original article was talking about students learning in lectures. One might presume that the learning process ends with students being tested in a situation where they have no notes of any kind? If that's true, then there's no point holding on to "the originals", because on the day of the test/exam/whatever, you won't have access to them anyway. In essence, transferring knowledge from the original lecture via the written notes to ones memory?