Unit 2 - Research and organization

Excerpting

What is an excerpt and what can I use it for?

Help - there's a big pile of literature on your desk and no end in sight!?

Studying also means reading a large amount of texts. You're just wondering how you're going to retain all that information? Remember all that you have read later? No problem. We'll introduce you to a technique that makes it easier to remember the most important content. Then, even after your well-deserved break, you won't lose so much of what you've just read.

The method you can use to work out and retain the content of your texts is called excerpting. Maybe you have heard about it in one of your seminars.

What this is exactly and how it works, we will explain in this presentation: