Reading notebooks
A reading notebook brings quotations, questions and personal observations into one place.
What does this reference describe?
A reading notebook brings quotations, questions and personal observations into one place.
What should accompany a measurement?
A page reference helps a note remain useful later.
Why keep the setup in the record?
A summary and a quotation serve different purposes.
How should a comparison be read?
Questions can be kept alongside initial impressions.
What belongs in a working note?
Revisiting a note may reveal a change in interpretation.
Are the plotted values live readings?
The diagrams and tables here use illustrative reference data. They are included to explain a reading method, not to report a live instrument.
What changes between sessions?
Review the reference, setup and conditions before combining records from different sessions.
Where should an interpretation begin?
Begin with the observation and its limits. An explanation should remain distinct from the original record.
A reading notebook brings quotations, questions and personal observations into one place. A summary and a quotation serve different purposes.
- Observation
- A detail noticed and recorded in its original context.
- Sequence
- The order in which objects, images or ideas are arranged.
- Context
- The place, time and circumstances surrounding a note.
- Collection
- A group of studies brought together for a stated purpose.