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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23
I know we spoke about this a little bit in another thread, but could you describe what technologies you have that help? I'm interested if there is anything that could help me organise my thoughts for planning and writing essays. I have mind map software, but that isn't helping as much anymore.
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There isn't much I can suggest right now. You have tried everything that I have.
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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23
I also record my lectures and record my revision notes and listen to them on my iPod, because I find it easier to remember auditory information.
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I listen to my lectures at home and take notes at the same time. This fills in all the gaps in my notes and improves my understanding.
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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23
I also have text-to-speech software which I find massively helpful for proofreading my written work and reading aloud text. Though I usually just quickly scan journal articles to find the info I need, and so don't use the text-to-speech software because it reads the entire thing and I just want certain sections or even certain sentences, but maybe I need to go back to using the text-to-speech software properly cos I may understand things better. Several times I think a sentence backs up what I want to say only to realise later that it doesn't or vice versa (my reading problem with positives and negatives again).
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Can your text to speech software read text files? If so, you can copy and paste the journal articles in a text document so you can edit out text you don't want the software to read. Or you could copy and paste it into a Word document, edit it and then save it as a pdf.
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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23
I'm still trying to find ways around these problems; making it up as I go along!  |
Me too. If I discover something new I'll let you know.