“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.I would have preferred citing actual research, not an appeal to historical methods.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.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret...