“The Suck” (Learning Anything by Writing It Out by Hand)
Maybe it’s good, maybe it’s bad. A lot of anecdotes about “important” historical figures or institutions that use copy by hand as a method for learning.<p>I would have preferred citing actual research, not an appeal to historical methods.<p>Given that some of the conclusions that word for word copy may be less efficient than summarized copy[1], it may be a less efficient and less effective way of learning than going through a reading and summarizing every paragraph.<p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret...</a>