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Text 1 Students who take lecture notes by hand tend to remember the material better than students who type. Handwriting is slower, so hand-writers are forced to summarise the lecture in their own words rather than copy it down. Text 2 The handwriting advantage largely disappears when typists are instructed not to transcribe the lecture word for word. The benefit comes from summarising, not from the pen itself.

Based on the texts, both authors would most likely agree with which statement?

  1. A. Summarising material in one's own words helps memory more than transcribing it.Correct
  2. B. Typing notes is always worse for memory than writing them by hand.
  3. C. Using a pen improves memory directly.
  4. D. Laptops should be banned from lectures.

Answer: A. Summarising material in one's own words helps memory more than transcribing it.

Text 1 credits the handwriting advantage to forced summarising; Text 2 says the benefit 'comes from summarising'. That's common ground.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. Typing notes is always worse for memory than writing them by hand.
Text 2 says typists who summarise lose little or nothing, so it wouldn't say typing is always worse.
C. Using a pen improves memory directly.
Text 2 explicitly denies that the pen itself is the cause, and Text 1 credits summarising, not the pen.
D. Laptops should be banned from lectures.
Neither text proposes a policy.

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