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Question: Note Taking - A commentary extract from an academic writing entitled “Effect of Note-Taking and Working Memory Span on Cognitive Efforts and Recall Performance” by Annie Piolat.
Answer: This essay will summarise the key points of the extract as well as its main purpose. To show a clear evidence that this is an academic piece of writing by using the extract itself to justify my answers. To comment on the structure of the essay and how it does connects with each other. Finally to raise any criticism towards the experiment and how the author used research studies to support the reliability of the experiment.
The author conducted this research to determine the importance of note-taking on cognitive operations and recall performance. This is to test the quality, quantity and format of the notes taken by the participants. Students with different working memory span were the main subject in this study. Participants were put under two situations; listening and note-taking (conventional note-taking technique) or reading and note-taking (outline-based technique). Results shows...(short extract)
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- Subject: English Language
- Course: English Language
- Level: A-Level
- Year: Not applicable
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 988
- Date submitted: October 18, 2014
- Date written: Not available
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 6115
