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explain what ever text you are studying. If text
is particularly difficult I will diagram it as I go
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usually a mistake. The shape of the diagram sometimes you need to go back and find out
should flow out of the text one is analyzing as what an earlier thought might have been, so
the structure of the concepts within that text one can start from there with a new line of
and their relations. Or if one is thinking ones thought. Also dating these thoughts is
own thoughts though the medium of the important. This establishes a record of priority
diagram, then that diagram should be tailored which may be useful later. It also gives one an
to the thoughts one is trying to record, rather idea as to what you thought about when, and
than instituting some preconceived structure of thus a feeling for the overall flow of thoughts
the ideas. The diagrams should serve thought over time. Especially when you come back to a
and understanding of texts rather than trying to line of thought after a long time it is good to
impose some alien order on the thought or the see how long it has been since one thought
text analyzed and diagrammed. If you do this about that idea.
one should see that each text or each series of
ones own thoughts ends up with a different Dialectic
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reference as one moves on to other thoughts. Another good practice is to write down the
bibliographic information when one deals with
a book, so I have a separate notebook to
capture that information, so that I can find
Notebooks
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