The point of all this reading is to absorb and comprehend the material. I have not been taking notes because that would mean that I would double the amount of time it is taking to read it in the first place! But now I wish I had done that because in writing papers, when I have to synthesize the materials from a dozen sources, it gets quite confusing! Particularly these dense treatises.
I fall back on my tried and true method of making skim notes. Enter the headings and chapter titles from the table of contents and insert one or two lines to summarize each section or chapter. At least it gives me guidance about where to investigate certain subject areas and where to poke for relevant quotes. Sigh. If I just had a lifetime to really grasp and wrestle with these concepts, I could speak more intelligently about them. But then, I guess that is what a doctoral program forces you to do. Must be I am on target.
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