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For MS221, annotations in the handbook are allowed, and the handbook you can bring with you into the exam. This page shows one way to make efficient use of this fact.

Author

Herbert Glarner

Published

2008-Oct-16

External Links

• The Open University (OU) in Wikipedia.
• The Open University Description of MS221 (without syllabus)

Handbook Annotations

Some Remarks

For the course MS221, the OU allows annotations in the handbook (and only in the handbook, i.e., no extra notes of whatever kind are allowed on whatever medium).

As I detest writing in the middle of books, my annotations concentrated on just a single page, just behind the front cover. The annotations took the form of very brief summary of the whole course, hinting at important key concepts (which have the tendency to escape one's memory exactly then when desperately needed). (Luckily, when required I can write in quite a small handwriting, at approx. 2 lines per centimetre, and so much material can be placed on a single A4 page.)

The page is not meant to be copied verbatim by anyone, really, as it is likely, that such would do you no good. After all, it's just the extended memory of a specific brain (namely the mine), and it is very probable that you need other annotations. However, it gives you an idea on how an efficient annotation strategy could look like. (And it keeps the content of the book clean!)

The Annotations