Tham khảo tài liệu 'how to study phần 2', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | A slightly less messy but equally useless technique is to use a pen or pencil to underline important or interesting passages. I guarantee that you will wind up underlining every sentence on every page and you will have gained nothing. The technique that I suggest is also susceptible to this problem but has a built-in way to overcome it so that you can re-read the text highlighting different passages each time. The trick is to highlight a passage by drawing a vertical line in the margin. I like to use the right margin and to make my line a right square bracket If you want to make it clear exactly where the highlighted passage begins or ends you can use small square brackets in the text as I did in this sentence along with the vertical line in the margin. This way even if you ve slipped into the error of highlighting . vertical-lining every sentence on every page at least you haven t ruined the page. Moreover when you re-read the text note that I said when not if - you can then use a different highlighting technique . underlining to highlight more important passages. Sometimes I use double brackets in the margin for this second round of highlighting highlighter for a fourth round. and underlining for a third round. If you must you could use yellow . Make Notes in the Margin You should also make notes in the margin of the text if there s room and if the text belongs to you . I like to put cross-references in the margin . if a passage on p. 20 reminds me in some way of a passage on p. 10 I ll write see p. 10 in the margin on p. 20 and see p. 20 in the margin on p. 10. Or I ll put some keyword in the margin if a passage reminds me of some major idea. But now suppose that a few months or a few years later you want to find that interesting passage that related to say consciousness how will you find it You could of course page through the book till you find it but what I like to do is to make an index of my marginal comments you can add entries . .
