Key words:
lists, notes and text in all its formats and whether in print or online.
Description:
This preference uses the printed word as the most important way to convey and receive information.
If you have a strong preference for learning by Reading and Writing (R & W) learning you should use some or all of the following:
INTAKE
To take in the information:
· lists
· headings
· dictionaries
· glossaries
· definitions
· handouts
· textbooks
· readings – library
· notes (often verbatim)
· teachers who use words well and have lots of information in sentences and notes
· essays
· manuals (computing and laboratory)
SWOT – Study without tears
To make a learnable package:
Convert your “notes” into a learnable package by reducing them (3:1)
· Write out the words again and again.
· Read your notes (silently) again and again.
· Rewrite the ideas and principles into other words.
· Organize any diagrams, graphs … into statements, e.g. “The trend is…”
· Turn reactions, actions, diagrams, charts and flows into words.
· Imagine your lists arranged in multiple choice questions and distinguish each from each.
OUTPUT
To perform well in any test, assignment or examination:
· Write exam answers.
· Practice with multiple choice questions.
· Write paragraphs, beginnings and endings.