| | Dear everyone who has ever owned the used textbook that I now possess:
So...lemme go over the definition of "highlight" with you: to highlight something is to mark a particular passage which is of some importance so that when you go back through the book, you can easily find it later without having to read through the entire book/chapter/page. And I see that you have made liberal use of this faculty. That's good. I've got no problem with that. In fact, sometimes it even helps ME, because then I know that this particular concept is important and that if you needed to know it then, I probably need to know it now. But I gotta ask...is it really necessary to highlight THE ENTIRE FREAKING BOOK?? Every page has some manner of markups, and it's not just one or two sentences, it's WHOLE PAGES. Why would you need to highlight that much? It just makes it so that you'll just have to read through all of that yellow stuff before you can find the ONE concept that you actually need. Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of highlighting? You're not supposed to have to read through the entire thing; that's what highlighting is FOR. Not to mention it frustrates me because then I have to try to ignore all of YOUR highlights so I can make or interpret my own. And it's not even as if there's a time difference between these highlights (which I would maybe forgive because different classes emphasize different concepts); all of them look like they were done by the same person. So you, highlighting individual with an itchy trigger finger: Before you mark up the page with that colorful little marker of yours, stop for a second, and think about it. The thought process that should enter your head is this: "Do I REALLY need to know this? Will I be able to easily find it later? Will it really matter if I can't recite this entire paragraph word-for-word?" If the answer to ANY of these questions is "no," then for the love of god, stop highlighting. Put down the marker. It's not that hard.
Wishing that the ink she read was that of the PUBLISHER and not some freshman dumbass,
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| | Posted 2/29/2008 4:11 PM - 73 Views - 4 eProps - 2 comments
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