{"id":262,"date":"2014-05-13T13:34:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T17:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/?p=262"},"modified":"2014-05-13T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T17:41:10","slug":"writing-by-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2014\/05\/13\/writing-by-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing By Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

So \u00a0sometime during the last semester, a study came out demonstrating that taking notes by hand (i.e., writing) helps students retain more information than typing notes on their keyboard<\/a>. \u00a0I posted that to both my undergrad and graduate class online pages. \u00a0But it ended \u00a0up sparking a discussion a few weeks later in my grad class when one of my students shared that she was getting SO MUCH MORE out of the readings of a very difficult course by writing her notes instead \u00a0of typing them. \u00a0And later in the semester, she and I had a research meeting in which she had brought in her handwritten notes to an article I had annotated online (through Mendeley<\/a>) and her insights into the paper were remarkable. \u00a0This was a paper, I’d read and cited several times, but she \u00a0was able to get something new out it.<\/p>\n

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WOWZA.<\/p>\n

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So I’ve started writing by hand my notes from articles again, my notes in meetings, my to do lists. \u00a0I’m printing off my students’ papers and reading them and writing on them. \u00a0Bless their poor little hearts because my writing mimics that of an MD, not a PhD.<\/p>\n

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I feel like I have gone back to the future. \u00a0But \u00a0I also feel like I’m getting a great deal more \u00a0out of my work. \u00a0I wrote everything by hand in grad school. \u00a0(Back in the stone ages) \u00a0I finally felt like I was getting \u00a0with the program when I typed my first draft on the computer. \u00a0I always did my serious editing by writing. \u00a0But I’ve been trying to even stop that.<\/p>\n

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No longer though. \u00a0I’ll Mendeley for storage \u00a0of the documents I read and also for their in text citing. \u00a0But I’m going \u00a0back to note cards \u00a0for my notes. \u00a0And \u00a0I will ride my horse and buggy to campus. \u00a0I notice a difference. \u00a0It could be that I’m an old f@rt and so that works for me. \u00a0Or \u00a0it may be that \u00a0all those \u00a0multiple \u00a0cues of \u00a0touch and movement encode these thoughts deeper.<\/p>\n

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I’d \u00a0love to \u00a0hear what you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So \u00a0sometime during the last semester, a study came out demonstrating that taking notes by hand (i.e., writing) helps students retain more information than typing notes on their keyboard. \u00a0I posted that to both my undergrad and graduate class online pages. \u00a0But it ended \u00a0up sparking a discussion a few weeks later in my grad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67nDP-4e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":259,"url":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2014\/02\/21\/writing-and-thinking-and-theorizing\/","url_meta":{"origin":262,"position":0},"title":"Writing and Thinking and Theorizing","author":"Anita Blanchard","date":"February 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"So I'm teaching my Writing And Thinking in the Organizational Sciences graduate class again. \u00a0(Wow! \u00a0My academic blog is two years old. \u00a0I really need to post more often) \u00a0This is a course that I took with Allan Wicker many years ago and is based upon Allan's (1985) paper on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":343,"url":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2018\/10\/18\/your-students-are-cheating\/","url_meta":{"origin":262,"position":1},"title":"Your Students Are Cheating","author":"Anita Blanchard","date":"October 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"So, this is not a comfortable topic. 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