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Franklin's technique takes advantage of several learning-related effects: | Franklin's technique takes advantage of several learning-related effects: | ||
* [[Generation|Generation | * [[Generation effect|Generation]]/[[testing effect]]: without looking at the actual example piece of writing, he attempts to produce an imitation, i.e., he attempts to generate the piece of writing himself. | ||
* [[Spacing effect]]: before trying to produce the imitation, he leaves aside the example piece of writing for some time so that he forgets it to some extent. | * [[Spacing effect]]: before trying to produce the imitation, he leaves aside the example piece of writing for some time so that he forgets it to some extent. | ||
Revision as of 01:25, 17 December 2018
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/148/148-h/148-h.htm start at "Three or four letters of a side had passed, when my father happened to find my papers and read them."
for a summary, see e.g. https://excellence-in-literature.com/copywork-how-benjamin-franklin-taught-himself-to-write-well/ (there are at least several articles online discussing this)
Franklin's technique takes advantage of several learning-related effects:
- Generation/testing effect: without looking at the actual example piece of writing, he attempts to produce an imitation, i.e., he attempts to generate the piece of writing himself.
- Spacing effect: before trying to produce the imitation, he leaves aside the example piece of writing for some time so that he forgets it to some extent.
See also
External links
- Duncan Sabien discusses this technique in the context of inventing rationality techniques in this EA Global talk