Study tips: You will be told what books are good image
sources for the lecture material; start early to
accumulate a xerox portfolio , since there is always a rush on books
around midterm time and the end
of the semester. When you come to start accumulating material
for your paper, the same applies.
The terror of image memorization for
exams is easy to soothe, if you take about an hour a week
to go over your notes next to the images discussed, flipping
through the textbook, course web-base, and
your own xeroxes. It is helpful to put reproductions up where
you can see them in your room(s) (this
will help your paper also), and/or make reproduction flashcards
to riffle through as you would for a
foreign language.
When you are trying to absorb your readings,
it is common for people to find that writing out notes
rather than highlighting on the page is a better memory tool,
which will save cramming hours even if it
seems like more work at the time.
Drawing: when you are trying to understand
and remember how buildings and images are arranged,
it is a great help to trace or sketch objects and make rough
placement diagrams, and to draw over
xeroxes with labels, composition lines, etc. Someof the takehomes will
show you how to experiment
with these techniques. And a diagram can be the clearest way
to hold and convey information , about
causes and relationships in time and space.