【暑期特惠11】概要写作1.9 Take Notes, Not Notepads-Lyx（课件）-高考英语作文新题型

概要写作 文本内容与结构解读 写作思路解读 写作思路微技能 表达微技能 牛刀小试 参考范文欣赏 体裁：说明文 主题： take notes by typing or take notes with a pen and paper 结构： Para 1 Para 3&4 Para 2 Para 5 1.文本内容与结构解读 If you were allowed to bring a laptop to class, would you prefer to take notes by typing or with a pen and paper? Most people would probably prefer a laptop. And the reason is obvious: you can write much more quickly using a keyboard and therefore take down more information. But the truth is that faster isn’t always better. A new study, done by Princeton University and University of California, found that students who took handwritten notes actually learned more than those who used laptops, reported The Atlantic. In the study, 65 college students watch a video of a lecture and take notes either with pens or laptops. Students were then asked to complete different tests based on how well they remembered and understood the lecture. Results shows that pen users performed better than those who took notes with their laptops. Curious about the results, they compared the notes of the two groups and immediately saw the difference — pen users’ notes were shorter and taken mostly in their own words. Laptop users, however, usually type down word by word what the lecturer said in a “mindless” way. They found that students with laptops always try to take more notes, so they usually write down information without processing its meaning while pen users know that they cannot possibly record every word in a lecture. Instead, they listen, think and focus on understanding the content of the lecture. Besides brain activities, there is another reason that laptops are not so useful in class. According to Scientific American, when college students use laptops in class, they spend on average 40 percent of class time doing things such as visiting social media sites or shopping, which obviously harms their school performance. Indeed, technology is making our lives easier and doing things more ef