Book 9. If you read long sentences separated by slashes, they will come to mind more easily.

 　Hello. Today's theme is to use slashes to read difficult sentences. I'm currently reading a textbook for the first-level accounting bookkeeping exam, and it's very difficult, so I tried using a technique commonly used in English: using slashes in sentences. (lol)

　By doing this, that knowledge started to sink into my head. It's amazing. When I was a student, I learned how to insert slashes into English sentences to separate them into smaller sections for reading, but that only applied to English sentences, not Japanese sentences. Yay! Slash reading!!

　When I was studying the textbook for the first-grade bookkeeping exam recently, the textbook had difficult sentences, so I found that by dividing long sentences with slashes while reading, it became easier to understand. That's right. Descartes said in his book, "Divide the difficulty," and by dividing long, difficult sentences into smaller parts and reading them, I was able to spend my time very meaningfully.

　In other words, I've been able to spend my time with good value for money. Great value for money!! I have a method of writing ideas and other things in my textbooks, and when I read them for the second time because they are full of notes, I can clearly see what points I was concerned about the last time I read them. I'll analyze it! Ding!

　I once saw a news report that even billionaires practice the method of writing down ideas in a notebook. They write all over textbooks. That's right. There should be an endless supply of ideas. If you take a detailed look at the ideas that pop into your head by chance, and give them a date, you'll be able to remember what you were thinking at the time. Reflection!!

　Even with this blog alone, I record the details of my daily life in a notebook, focusing on themes. Log-log. Recently, a study method I'd like to adopt is to use slashes to separate sentences that are difficult to understand. In particular, the textbook I use for my first-grade bookkeeping exam is a handy one, small enough to hold in one hand, but the content is difficult, so I like to use slashes to separate sentences as I read.

　The content I read after the slash marks is purely for study purposes, and I don't need to obtain any qualifications, so it's just study. However, I would like to write down any questions or discoveries I have while reading, date them, and turn the textbook into an idea book. The treasure trove of ideas!

　I also used to keep a diary, and I would simply copy down the questions and ideas I had written in my textbooks and notebooks into this diary. These days, I write articles of 1,500 characters, whereas before I would write 3,000 characters, but even writing 1,500 character articles is difficult if you're not used to it. It really is the law of inertia. The first few steps are important.

　I would like to aim for my blog posts to be around 1500 characters long. Until now, I have used my own experiences and memorable knowledge as reference material, but I would like to write more academic articles, especially articles more like those of a science writer.

　As a science writer, I would like to start by writing about medicine. I don't intend to write about anything that constitutes medical treatment, so please use this as just one science writer's opinion and use it as a reference. If you use this as a reference and want to create other creative works, please let me know in the comments section.

　Of course, there are copyright issues, so I intend to start from scratch and express the knowledge I have in my head in my own words. Please look forward to it. That's all. Thank you for listening. This is Watanabe Ten.