What is your study plan?

Leaning through writing is a primitive method which needs to be brought back for better understanding and recall. Exambazaar tells you why you should rely more on pen and paper rather than typing out everything.

It’s not just me who is saying that. Several educationists and scientists who study human behaviour say writing helps to memorize and learn a lot better than other traditional or modern methods. When we write, our brain constantly reads and assesses our words.

This way we actually are receiving constant feedback from motor sensors along with the feel of a pencil or a pen scribbling down a paper surface. In several experiments and studies conducted, it has been concluded that taking down notes on a laptop creates many diversions (because of social media &internet) and lacks the required classroom learning.

While typing does trump over handwriting in speed and efficiency (portability& sharability), it loses the contest at knowledge gained. Because writing by hand is slow, it makes learning slower, which in turn forces the reader to focus at a normal rate and understand more efficiently.

Writing involves three important brain processes:

1. Motor: Putting the pen on paper and working it to form letters, words, and sentences
2. Visual: Seeing what you are writing.
3. Cognitive: Remembering what you learn and writing. Revises your memory.

 Moreover, typos tend to creep into your typing often than should be normal. And being in such a modern age, where revising drafts takes time and effort, we tend to rely on apps and tools to correct our mistakes for us. Now consider a written paper. As you write, you will tend to make lesser mistakes, focus more on corrections and since it’s your own handwriting, identify errors quickly.

Everyone has their own approach to studying but regardless of how you do it or why you’re studying it comes down to the same two things.

Being able to read and understand as much as possible as efficiently as possible.

Being able to remember everything.

Taking Note habits

Make it a habit of taking notes no matter what class you’re in. If they are handwritten; the better. Taking notes in class will let us take active information and process them instantly so we understand. In the research paper, The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard, Pam Mueller (Princeton University) and Daniel Oppenheimer (UCLA Los Angeles) explain that students who take notes with pen and paper have more conceptual understanding than others. It’s simple, writing things down actually help us remember them better. One should develop vigorous note-taking skills to ace any class and subject by revising on said notes later.

For some they want the motivation or ability to study for 15 hours a day but I think it is far better to be efficient with your studying time and get the most out of the time you can do rather than stretch it out over hours when you don’t remember most of it anyway after a session like that.

Slow and steady learner

Compared to the swift speed of a keyboard, writing by hand does indeed take a considerable amount of time. But maybe time is what we need right now. Successful learning can only take place when one can understand and memorize what they read, hear and learn.

Do Visit Learning by Writing: How writing by hand can strengthen your study plan written by Poulomi Mandal ( Mass Com student, obsessive book hoarder (and the reader), TV series fanatic )

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