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131 - Textbook Deconstruction - start out by asking yourself why you are reading the textbook? This will dictate what the best approach to taking notes on it will be.

1. Required for your primary field of study? (e.g. Introduction to Psychology textbook for student planning on becoming a Psychologist, see specialized knowledge)

2. Part of your learning for general knowledge? (e.g. Economics Textbook for a course that you have to take but isn’t part of your core knowledge base)

Components of a textbook you can take notes on: key terms, concepts, models, and their relationships. For introductory textbooks, you can often think of the table of contents as a representation of a basic model of the field. What can you do with these components?

• Use as foundational notes for further development
• Use as foundational notes & memorize them
• Use as notes for future reference
• Do not take notes but instead strictly memorize them

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198 - Should you include textbook structures in your notes when deconstructing them? This is a question that I’m still trying to work out in my head. When picking apart a textbook and taking notes on it, what are the components you can take notes on? Quotes Excerpts Your Own Reactions Individual Concepts Interconnected Concepts Models (Set of Rules) Summary of Book Review of Book Summary of each Chapter Book’s Table of Contents This means that your notes on a book could either be very short …

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167 - Example of a Book Deconstruction - if you think of a book as a sequence of ideas, then you want to create a “note sequence” of the most important ideas within the book. You also want each idea in the sequence to live as a standalone note such that you can remove it from the context of the book and have it stand on its own. This allows you to reference the note in other ones while still having it make sense when you revisit it in the far future. A good resource for how to process books is G…

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146 - Processing a Textbook for Understanding When processing a undergraduate textbook, I think of a four tasks Create notes for the important concepts themselves (often bolded terms in the book) Link the note (concepts) with other important notes (concepts) in the textbook chapter Link the note with the immediate context it sits in (e.g. the textbook chapter) Link the note to the wider context (e.g. the field you are studying) For example, I am undergraduate psychology student (hypothetical…

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135 - Information Approach Quadrant Take notes on core concepts, models, and relationships + memorize them. DO NOT take notes on them + memorize them Take notes on core concepts, models, and relationships + DO NOT memorize them DO NOT take notes on core concepts, models, and relationships + DO NOT memorize them Option 1: you want to do this if you think you’ll be further developing those topics, while also needing to memorize them for test Option 2: you don’t think you’ll be further develop…