Article: Win a luxury writing set with stationery specialists Pen Heaven

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I choose cursive

I choose cursive

I Choose Cursive

I choose cursive

I choose cursive.

(copperplate or engrosser's script actually but oh well)

I choose cursive

I choose cursive

Top note taking tip...
Make a little, simple icon legend, and use it.
Ex. important -> exclamation mark
to look for upon the internet later -> a magnifying glass with three little "w"s next to it
to look for in the textbook later -> a magnifying glass (if you know the page write it)
to rewrite -> strike abc

etc.

Reply 287

HiddenNinja01

Original post by TSR Competition

Get your work done in style with a luxurious silver and gold Otto Hutt rollerball and matching ballpoint pen worth £225, complete with a large Chianti leather journal courtesy of Pen Heaven.

Offering a comprehensive range of writing instruments and leather journals, Pen Heaven provides personalisation on products thanks to an in-house engraving and embossing service.

Specialists in classic brands such as Parker, Cross and Lamy, Pen Heaven also boasts some more unusual and hard-to-find items such as the Japanese hand-painted Platinum range, Italian calligraphy sets and the design focused Worther brand.

Entering the competition is easy - just reply to this thread with the words 'I choose cursive'.

See pictures of the prizes and read more about this competition

I choose cursive

Reply 288

mowglisroad

Original post by TSR Competition

I choose cursive!

Reply 289

kieder

Original post by TSR Competition

I choose cursive

Top tip:
when making notes it's easy to get carried away by making them look just pretty or doing it that way because someone does it. notes are for YOU, so make them however you want as long as you understand them and they help you :smile:

I choose cursive.

I choose cursive

Original post by TSR Competition

I choose cursive

Also top note taking tip is to write in your worst and sloppiest handwriting to get notes down on the page way faster.

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I choose cursive!

Original post by TSR Competition

Get your work done in style with a luxurious silver and gold Otto Hutt rollerball and matching ballpoint pen worth £225, complete with a large Chianti leather journal courtesy of Pen Heaven.Offering a comprehensive range of writing instruments and leather journals, Pen Heaven provides personalisation on products thanks to an in-house engraving and embossing service.Specialists in classic brands such as Parker, Cross and Lamy, Pen Heaven also boasts some more unusual and hard-to-find items such as the Japanese hand-painted Platinum range, Italian calligraphy sets and the design focused Worther brand.Entering the competition is easy - just reply to this thread with the words 'I choose cursive'.See pictures of the prizes and read more about this competition

I choose cursive

Top note-taking tip
Don't bother decorating your notes. Using different colours, highlighting everything and inserting drawings and symbols may make your notes look nicer but it will not help you to remember the content and therefore amounts to little more than a very time-expensive distraction.

This is because the value of notes does not consist in being able to read them over but in the simple act of writing them in the first place. This is not hearsay, it is scientific fact. Writing with a pen allows for greater recall in the long-term because in writing you are using more areas of the brain than if you are simply listening to a lecture or re-reading your notes. By linking the spatial part of the brain needed to operate the pen with the verbal part needed for our command of language, you are reinforcing your recall ability in ways that far supersede the comparatively passive methods of listening and reading.

Write high quality notes, write them with a pen and write, write, write.

I choose cursive

I choose cursive

I choose cursive

I choose cursive

Note taking tip: Take really messy notes in lectures that you can barely read. This way you'll have to rewrite the notes while the lecture is still fairly fresh in your mind, and this will help reinforce what you learnt during the lecture.

Reply 299

troubadour.

Original post by TSR Competition

I choose cursive.

Top note-taking tip: Take the time to write (or re-write if it's too slow for class) your notes neatly and, if possible, use several differently coloured pens to make your notes more readable and attractive for when it comes to revising for exams. If your notes look like senseless, black-and-white scribbling, I'd wager it would take greater willpower than otherwise to get off TSR and revise! :tongue: