Verbal style exploration#

Exploration using the verbal style involves using spoken and written words. This could be via attending lectures, engaging in discussion, writing articles, rewriting topics, talking and summarizing aloud, and more. Let’s look at some more details:

• Attend lectures or engage in discussions. Find ways to involve more listening in you content collection and exploration. Attend a class, lecture, or study group. If possible, engage in discussion with your lecturer or instructor, and ask them to explain topics in more detail.

• Read dramatically. When reading important material, try reading it out loud and dramatically. Act as if you were on stage in a play or similar production. Say the important points with volume and strength. Skip over less important information more quickly and quietly.

• Talk yourself through material and summarize aloud. As you read, pause after each paragraph and read aloud the key points from that paragraph. Also, summarize each lesson aloud.

• Reword and rewrite learning material. Rewrite important sections of your training material. Think about how you would write that section if you were writing your own instruction book or manual.

• Write an article. A powerful way to learn a topic is to write an article on it. Do some further research, think about your audience, look through your content and then express the core ideas in your own words. Why not send it to a related magazine as a “student’s view on topic X?”

• Write summaries. Write your own summaries of each lesson or topic. Review them periodically as you progress, and keep them for future reference.

• Record notes on to a tape or computer. Record lectures, discussions or readings on to tape or on to a computer (for example via an MP3 player or recorder). Copy important parts and put them together into a summary recording.