Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph:
(A) Yet some studies of college students have found that those who take notes by hand understand and remember more.
(B) The reason is that the hand is slower than the speaker’s voice, so the student cannot copy everything and has to choose.
(C) It is this act of choosing what to keep that fixes an idea in the mind.
(D) Most of us assume that we will remember a lecture better if we type every word of it on a laptop.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (D), (A), (B), (C)
Rearranged Parts:
(D) Most of us assume that we will remember a lecture better if we type every word of it on a laptop.
(A) Yet some studies of college students have found that those who take notes by hand understand and remember more.
(B) The reason is that the hand is slower than the speaker’s voice, so the student cannot copy everything and has to choose.
(C) It is this act of choosing what to keep that fixes an idea in the mind.
Complete paragraph: Most of us assume that we will remember a lecture better if we type every word of it on a laptop. Yet some studies of college students have found that those who take notes by hand understand and remember more. The reason is that the hand is slower than the speaker’s voice, so the student cannot copy everything and has to choose. It is this act of choosing what to keep that fixes an idea in the mind.