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Tuesday Tip: Memorizing Vocabulary 01
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Every area of study has its own specific vocabulary, and mastering a subject's terminology is an important part of mastering the subject itself. Here are the basics of memorization:
Be sure that you understand the term before you memorize it. Otherwise, you'll just be memorizing words.
Memorize in many short sessions. Educators and psychologists call this "distributed practice." You can memorize much more information in six 10-minute sessions than in one 60-minute session.
Incorporate memorization into your other study activities. As you
read a chapter in a textbook, for instance, make index cards of the
terms that are new to you, writing the term on one side of the card and
the definition on the other. Then rehearse those terms aloud three or
four times that day.
The next day, review your index cards before beginning the new reading. Again, make make index cards of the
terms that are new to you and rehearse them aloud to learn them. Then review all of your words from the two days aloud three or four times that day.
Continue the cycle of reviewing your words every day, and of adding new words for each reading assignment.
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