Questioning Your Notes Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. To learn is to wonder. Deeper learning requires reflection.
Reflection is another word for study.
To study can mean to keep a carefully maintained notebook of information as you find it, to keep your written notes in it, and to especially to reflect on your notes in writing and to share reflections with others. To reflect means to contemplate and think more deeply about how the fact or idea links or interacts with other facts or ideas. Your facility in interacting with the questions in your notebook becomes tangible evidence of your degree of reflectivity. That is, leave a three to four inch left margin on your note paper. Then, put your reflections, that is, your keywords, special terms and higher order thinking questions, and organizational or outlining marks down the left hand side.