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Drawing a recall pattern.
A recall pattern may first be formulated
immediately after the overview. But often, especially with difficult
nonfiction texts, the student will wait until after the first preview of a
book, chapter, or article to take notes. Here are some pointers.
After you’ve completed a preview, draw or create the basic structure
and record initial entry of topics on a recall pattern in pencil. This way,
you can erase preliminary information that later turns out to be
inappropriate or incorrect.
Many students find that it’s best to include a recall pattern for both
the introduction and conclusion in each chapter. This can be done on a
separate sheet of paper, or may be treated as one branch of the entire
chapter’s recall pattern.
Try to use subheadings, boldface items and other highlighted segments
of texts as a guide. Many times, the subheadings in a chapter will
become the main branches of the recall pattern.
In general, keep your recall pattern entries short. Use keys words and
phrases, but not complete sentences. You can’t and shouldn’t try to
record everything you read. Rather, draft notes that will stimulate your
growing memory of the subject.
Read the chapter. After reading, put the book aside and insert more
supporting facts and concepts. If you can’t remember a point, feel free to
pick the book up and reread that uncertain section. But again, don’t just
copy what’s in the book onto your recall pattern. Being able to transfer
information into your notes without being glued to the text is an
important part of the learning process.
Do not slow down your overviewing, previewing or reading just
because you’re drafting a recall. Move along at your fastest possible pace
when you’re going through the book or article. Then put it aside and

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again, as quickly as possible, make your recall pattern entries.
The overviewing-previewing-reading and the recall or note-taking are
separate, but they are also part of the entire time you devote to study.
You can deal with all these activities much more efficiently if you treat
them as individual entities.
If you started your recall pattern during the overview, begin to finalize
the general structure after the preview. This is the time to fill in some of
the main ideas in your pattern, preferably in a contrasting color. The
more vividly you picture the material on paper—and the more
memorable you can make the linkage between concepts—the more likely
you are to remember it later.
Again, when you jot down information at this stage, it’s important to
write from memory—don’t just copy material from the book.
Continue to revise and add to your recall pattern during the final
postview and review phases of study. In fact, you may decide during
these stages that you want to redraw your recall pattern completely.
That’s perfectly acceptable because the more you work with the material
—the more you get into it—the more likely you’ll be to understand and
remember what you’ve read.