About a year into my graduate music theory studies at Indiana University, I took a Teaching Music Theory class with one of my favorite professors, a professor known for his excellent teaching. While I don't remember the context in which he offered it, he once told us a funny story about the way he best learns information. He mentioned that sometimes, when he needs to remember something, he will write it down—but then he'll throw the paper away! His wife always teases him about this. However, there's some truth to what my professor said: writing something out by hand is a great way to lock it in your brain!
As long as you don't have something like a Disorder of Written Expression or motor dysgraphia, you might also find that (re)writing necessary information on paper, by hand, is a great way to commit it to memory! This is why I always recommend that clients new to studying English (or any client interested in improving his/her grammar skills!) review the comments I've left in each paper's margins and rewrite them by hand in a notebook. I think you'll find that if you do this, your grammar and usage skills in English will improve much more quickly! This might be especially helpful if your first language doesn't use the Latin alphabet, because it will provide writing practice using the Latin alphabet too. Have you tried rewriting my paper comments by hand to retain the information in them more accurately? If so, let me know how it worked for you!
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