#literature student tips

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Book Fitzjames

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this city is the definition of dark academia | oxford

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Nobody is coming to save you. Get up.

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24.03.2024 [😉]

🌃: 조만간 학교도 가봐야지/ Even if I'm a student on leave, I still have to go to school sometimes.

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.𖥔 ݁ ˖ How to study: A note-taking and analytical reading guide ✦ ‧₊˚ ⋅

To preface,

One of the most important things to understand when it comes to learning, is the two styles of memory rehearsal.

Style 1: Elaborative Rehearsal

The act of understanding a concept so deeply it connects to your worldview, past experiences, and this piece of knowledge becomes yours.

Style 2: Maintained Rehearsal

Reviewing a piece of information to memorize a fact, but not the concept and the roots of the context.

+ It is important to think for yourself; form your own connections and learn because you want to learn, not just in hopes of getting good marks. Knowledge is beautiful and powerful, and should be utilized in the appropriate way.

Part 1: Reading non-fiction/informative based texts

Technique 1: "The Walden Method"

Step 1: Inspectional reading

Quickly (!!) read the entire chapter

Know exactly what happened

Know exactly what stood out to you

Know what to look for

+ Highlight things that stand out to you (in any way) and/or take small notes in the margins ("interesting!" "what" "love!")

(This forms the backbone of your understanding for this topic)

Step 2: Analytical reading

Gather a general understanding of the material

Create a concise map of your thoughts, and small details of the text

+ Intricate connections begin to take place because pieces of information now make sense with the general backbone you formed in the inspectional reading.

Step 3: Take notes in a flow-like fashion

Write down the backbone ideas/concepts

(What year did the French Revolution take place? What were its important influences? Who were important figures during this time?)

Elaborate on these backbone ideas/concepts to give you a visual representation of the connections you made with your backbone, and to see what still needs to be understood.

Part 2: Taking notes of non-fiction/informative based texts

Technique 2: "The Cal Newport Method" - (for non-technical subjects)

Base your notes around these three points in this order to make your notes as clear and concise as possible:

Q-question

E-evidence

A-answer

+ When/if you are in a lecture, scribble down everything your instructor says of importance, and then revise your notes immediately after.

+ You must group your evidence and conclusion pieces carefully, being sure to link the proper piece of evidence to the correct conclusion.

(EX:

Question: What are Emily's favorite colors?

Evidence #1: Her mother says she likes pink.

Evidence #2: Her father says she likes pink, and yellow.

Evidence #3: Her brother says she likes blue, but only when its December.

Conclusion: Emily's general favorite colors are pink and yellow, as well as blue only when it is December.

^^ It is important to include the bit about it being her favorite color only in December because it would be incorrect to say it is one of her general favorite colors.)

Technique 3: "The Cal Newport Method" - (for technical subjects)

Base your notes around these three points in this order to make your notes as clear and concise as possible:

P-problem

Q-question

A-answer

Step 1: Understand the large, basic concepts first

+ Do not drive head first into math problems or questions concerning the nervous system if you do not understand the large, basic concepts first.

Step 2: Note-taking

Write down practice problems/diagrams/equations, etc.

Write each step to solving/understanding this problem/diagram/equation, etc.

Annotate each step, explaining why this is so

For equations, write down a practice problem for each possible alternative outcome that can happen

(EX:

1. How to solve an algebraic equation.

2. How to solve an algebraic equation with a square root.

3. How to solve an algebraic equation with square roots, etc.

Technique 4: The Feynman Method

You do not fully understand a subject until you can explain it to a child, and reword it yourself without notes

Part 3: Studying non-fiction/informative based texts

Testing yourself with flashcards and quizzes

Forces you to actively retrieve knowledge, which updates, and reinforces memory

Allows you to actively gage what you already know

Making mistakes actually improves knowledge and memory

2. Use flashcards

When using flashcards, it is best to mix the deck with multiple subjects, interweaving the concepts you focus on in a single session, is more effective than practicing a single skill one at a time.

This further strengthens memory because it forces the brain to temporarily forget, then retrieve information.

You may also find connections across the topics, making it more significant to your brain.

3. Rest, review, rest, review

Spacing reviews across multiple days allows for rest, and retention between sessions.

+ Cramming is not effective because while you could remember information from the night previously, it will not stay ingrained in your long term memory, or even just as likely in your memory the next morning...

Part 3: On essay writing

The more complicated your essay is, the dumber it sounds.

When writing a research paper, refine the scope of your research and don't be afraid to narrow it.

When writing a research paper, create a pile of at least 20 academic papers on the same subject.

+ Sift through these papers with your scope in mind

+ This is the breeding ground for new ideas

Give yourself time to process information right after reading.

View the writing process as an exploration

This is a collection of information collected from these sources:

R. C. Walden - Youtube

Cal Newport - How to become a straight-A student: The unconventional strategies real college students use to score high while studying less

TED-Ed

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january 15th, 2024

which is cooler, the mcgill application being completed or the giant octopus?

I wanna talk more about graduate school… about how, even though I’m applying for something monumental there’s a lot of conflict surrounding it that I’ve been trying to ignore. Mostly that there are some people that don’t see it as a big achievement, or as monumental, unless it’s done their way. I dunno, I’ll get into more detail on it in my next post. But, even though I’m proud of myself I feel like I’m disappointing a lot of people, and I’m carrying a lot of weight on it. It’ll be nice to let some of that go, but it’s tough right now. Just trying to keep my head up, okay? You keep your head up too, okay?

🎧: hey pretty momma — rainbow kitten surprise

🎥: zodiac (rewatch)

🎮: ace attorney investigations: miles edgeworth (turnabout reminiscence) ALSO I haven’t forgotten that @inseparabiles asked me to talk more about my thoughts on this game. Maybe that’ll be my next post instead and we procrastinate talking about the hard stuff?

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weekly dump

Painted my room (finally)

Had lunch with my cousin and got up to date about life

Decided to refresh my writing guide knowledge by reading the AP, Chicago and APA guides and keeping some notes on my desktop

Continued the Divine Comedy analysis course from Yale

Started brewing my coffee at home again since I don’t go out as much anymore

And Miffy update: she is doing great minus a couple incidents of her going under the christmas tree and us having to get her out before she ate a cable

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~ one of my favorite movie quotes. everyone has their own set of goals and aspirations, and whether or not they align with your visions- never dissuade or discourage someone from achieving what they dream of.

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exam session with friends

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Resources For People Studying 'Macbeth'

Videos

Mr Bruff's Analysis Videos

Shakespeare In Seven Minutes: Macbeth Summary

Last Minute Macbeth Revision

Macbeth Contextual Analysis

Top 12 Most Important Macbeth Quotes

Articles

Plot Summary

Characters

Themes

Form, Structure and Language

Dramatisation

Sample Exam Question

Podcast Episodes

Act 1: Scenes 1 and 2

Act 1: Scene 3

Act 1: Scenes 4 and 5

Act 1: Scenes 6 and 7

Act 2

Act 3

Act 4

Act 5: Scenes 1-3

Act 5: Scenes 4-9

Character Analysis: Lady Macbeth

Character Analysis: Macduff

Character Analysis: King Duncan

Character Analysis: The Witches

Character Analysis: Banquo

Pathetic Fallacy and Symbolism

Structure, Meter and Dramatic Irony

Themes: Bravery

Themes: Power and Ambition

Themes: Violence

Themes: Choice (Fate vs Free Will)

Themes: Supernatural

Themes: Masculinity

Themes: Armour, Kingship and Natural Order

Themes: Appearances and Deception

Themes: Morality

Themes/Motifs: Women, Children and Sleep

Themes/Motifs: Madness and Blood

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Recently I have been reading into Biopower and Biopolitics which finds its origins in Foucault. Agamben's "Homo Sacer" has been extremely interesting, especially because I wish to do some more research in Disability Studies. I am looking forward to reading Lennard J Davis.

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I Love ThriftBooks!

This is going to sound like one of those thinly veiled Cariona or RayBans ads, but I guarantee this content is 100% not sponsored. I found this website through a screenshot of an old tumblr post on Pinterest before I even joined tumblr, so I thought I should put it back on here.

ThriftBooks is exactly what it sounds like: an online way to shop secondhand books at a discounted price. It's like Half Price Books, but with free shipping on orders $15+ and a rewards system that gives you free books. At the lowest tier, you get a free $6 book for every $60 you spend.

(But Will, spending $60 on books is easier than finding a book that only costs $6. That doesn't sound like a deal to me.)

It is on ThriftBooks! Prices get as low as $3, and not just on out-of-date kiddy books. I had a list of THIRTY-SIX books of required reading this semester (English major!!!), and I came out with only spending $200 total. I got FOUR free books through multiple orders. At market value, the full stack would have cost me around $650 through my campus bookstore. SIX HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS. For a stack of books I might not even read. That's a whole month of rent and utilities I saved.

Please please pLEASE go shop on ThriftBooks! I've bought all my textbooks through college on there, even before I changed to an English degree. They have everything!* Here's a promo link for my friends if you want a free book at only $30:

*(Disclaimer: ThriftBooks does rely on readers to send in their books once done with them, and though they have some new books, their stock is liable to fluctuate. STEM majors may be SOL when it comes to finding a specific edition of a textbook that came out last year.)

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recent purchase 💸 i've been trying to slow down with my book buying this year (it's not going well), but ever since i saw 'the house on via gemito' on the international booker longlist, i knew i wanted to read it. especially because italy is one of the countries i'm focusing on this year for my "read around the world" challenge!!

[lady-nienna-the-magi]

28.1.2025 pt 2

Today has been one of those days when i got no motivation to study at all, but i just keep going out of spite. I keep studying out of spite. I think that is the running force behind this academic machine. Not dedication, curiosity.. but pure spite. I'll hunt that elusive PhD graduate's hat and sword down.

Ambition is 10% actual ambition and the rest is the fucking spite. In time the goal gets closer, it has to. When the doubt is there and your brain is a scrambled egg, take a little break. And then continue.

Hunt it down like Michael Myers. It will give in first.

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26.03.2024 [☺️]

🗂: 콘서트 티켓팅 날/ Day6 Concert Ticketing Day

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Study: 21/09/2024

- Chemistry homework: reviewing last year’s nomenclature and naming new types of molecules we’re learning this year

- English homework: Read Chapter 5 of Atonement and answer questions

- Maths practice paper: Completed and marked!

Remember: the effort you put into your study session matters more than the time it takes to complete it! 📚