{"id":67636,"date":"2022-06-04T13:48:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T17:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=67636"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:37:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:37:58","slug":"slip-box-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/slip-box-method\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slip-Box Method: Level Up Your Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is the slip-box system of note-taking? What are the benefits of the slip-box method over traditional techniques?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his book <em>How to Take Smart Notes<\/em>, Ahrens argues that the slip-box system is specifically designed to help you both have and share original insights. The slip-box method has several benefits over the traditional writing process: For example, using it will make you more efficient and lead to more creative insights.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at the three benefits of the slip-box method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Slip-Box Method&#8217;s Benefits<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahrens contends that <strong>in traditional academic writing methods, you don\u2019t gain regular feedback<\/strong>. For example, you might jot down an idea you\u2019ve learned from a book\u2014but you don\u2019t learn whether it\u2019s useful until you try to include it in your paper several steps later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, Ahrens argues that the slip-box method gives feedback at each stage of the process. The system provides immediate and regular feedback in various ways. For example, by filing evergreen notes in your slip-box, you immediately learn whether a note is valuable: A note you can logically file behind another note and that connects to several other notes within the slip-box is probably a better idea than a note you find only a few connections to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By providing regular feedback, Ahrens argues, <strong>the slip-box method provides three benefits that traditional academic writing methods don\u2019t.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. It Makes the Writing Process More Efficient<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As Ahrens notes, in the traditional method, you might try to write about an idea you highlighted in a book\u2014only to realize that you don\u2019t understand the idea well and thus interrupt your writing to review the idea. <strong>Using the slip-box system provides this feedback earlier<\/strong> and thus avoids such interruptions. If you can\u2019t clearly and concisely summarize an author\u2019s idea in your own words in a literature note, this is feedback saying that you don\u2019t understand the idea well\u2014and prompts you to clarify your understanding of the idea when<em> <\/em>you\u2019re taking notes instead of when you\u2019re writing a draft.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: While non-fiction writers don\u2019t generally get feedback from themselves at the note-taking stage, there are several techniques they use to get feedback from<em> others <\/em>before writing a <em>final <\/em>draft of their paper. Notably, university students are often encouraged to<a href=\"https:\/\/writingcenter.unc.edu\/tips-and-tools\/getting-feedback\/\"> talk to their teachers or visit university-sponsored writing centers at each stage of the writing process<\/a> so that they can receive feedback on their ideas, outlines, and drafts.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. It Improves Your Skills<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, Ahrens contends that <strong>using the slip-box method improves each skill necessary to write your paper<\/strong>\u2014namely writing, reading, and thinking. Ahrens believes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/deliberate-practice-definition\/\">deliberate practice<\/a> is essential to improving any skill, and he believes that each step of the slip-box method is a form of deliberate practice. This is because 1) you receive immediate feedback regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-good-are-you\/\">how good you are<\/a> at each step and 2) you approach every step with a specific goal\u2014for example, your goal when reading a book is to create literature notes that capture its most important ideas. Since each step is an opportunity to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/improve-your-skills\/\">deliberately practice<\/a> some skill, Ahrens argues, using the slip-box method makes you a better reader, writer, and thinker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3-it-helps-you-make-good-choices\">3. It Helps You Make Good Choices&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahrens contends that <strong>regularly using the slip-box method improves your ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/making-better-decisions-2\/\">make good choices<\/a> when working on your manuscripts<\/strong>. Ahrens explains that writers need to learn how to make good choices because writing often requires you to make judgment calls: For example, if you come up with an idea, you must decide whether it\u2019s worth pursuing further research on or likely to be a dead end.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Ahrens focuses primarily on how using the slip-box method improves your ability to choose what <em>ideas<\/em> to pursue, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-make-better-decisions-3\/\">how do you make better choices<\/a> about which <em>words<\/em> can best express those ideas? <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/on-writing-well\/\"><em>On Writing Well<\/em><\/a> author William Zinsser recommends <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/on-writing-well\/part-1-3#what-is-good-taste\">emulating the writing style of your favorite writers<\/a>: As you copy them, you\u2019ll naturally develop a sense of what works and ultimately make better choices in your own writing.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahrens contends that <strong>the best writers improve this skill by following their intuition<\/strong>, which they develop by repeatedly making and learning from their mistakes: The more mistakes you make, the better you become at detecting what <em>not <\/em>to<em> <\/em>do when some pattern arises\u2014so the better you become at recognizing\u2014or <em>intuiting<\/em>\u2014what to do instead. Since using the slip-box method gives you constant feedback, you are constantly recognizing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/learning-from-your-mistakes\/\">learning from your mistakes<\/a>: For example, if you regularly run into dead ends when researching ideas that arise in your slip-box, you\u2019ll eventually start to intuit when an idea is likely to result in a dead-end. In this way, using the slip-box system hones the intuition you need to make good choices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the slip-box system of note-taking? What are the benefits of the slip-box method over traditional techniques? In his book How to Take Smart Notes, Ahrens argues that the slip-box system is specifically designed to help you both have and share original insights. 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