Kyle Harrison
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Kirsti Lonka
Kirsti Lonka
Educational psychologist cited in How to Take Smart Notes (Lonka 2003) who compared successful and unsuccessful doctoral candidates’ reading approaches and found the critical difference was the ability to think beyond a text’s given frame. The book credits her with recommending brief accounts of a text’s main ideas over collecting quotes, and stressing that connecting those ideas to other contexts matters as much as capturing them. Also cited on the sobering point that half of all doctoral theses stay unfinished forever.