For this assignment, I chose an article titled “Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away”. I thought it would be interesting to read since I saw it was about using laptops for note-taking, which is something commonly done by students. The article starts off by talking about the advantages most people correlate laptops and note-taking with, but then goes on to prove why writing out is actually more helpful. For example, many people say typing is much faster than writing out by hand. However, the article goes on to say that because you have to write slowly when writing by hand, you retain the information better. This disproves one of the most popular reasons why people use laptops to note take.
The article also incorporated research that has been done to back up their stance on the topic. One study they cited in the article discovered that the brain actually encodes information better when writing by hand. This means that the information will last longer in the brain of those writing than in those typing. Overall, this article provided useful information. It provided details on why typing is less beneficial than writing. This persuades people to think about the benefits the “old-fashion” way of note-taking may have.
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