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Key terms, memory hooks and the cards in the margin

The guide is not plain prose. Three things in it are doing work you can use.

Written by Tyler Read

The guide is not plain prose. Three things in it are doing work you can use.

Key terms

Important terms are set bold with a dotted underline.

  • On a laptop, hover one — or tab to it — and a small card gives you the definition. Move away, scroll, or press Escape and it goes.

  • On a phone, tap it. Tap again, or tap anywhere else, to close it.

You never lose your place to read a definition, and the tooltip does not block the text underneath it. It works the same in Flowing and Paged.

The cards beside the text

Chapters carry short cards alongside the prose, each labelled for what it is — Key term, The science, Memory hook, Exam tip, Safety flag — plus structural blocks like Takeaway, What you'll master, Apply it and Quick reference.

They are not decoration and they are not asides you can skip. Exam tip and Quick reference in particular are the material in the form the exam asks for it.

Memory hooks at the end of a section

Where a section has a memory device, it appears at the foot of it under Memory hook for this section: the device, a breakdown of what each part stands for, and a link — Practise this in the deck → — into the flashcards that drill it.

Memory hooks come with a paid pass. On the trial you can see that a section has one, and what it is for, but the device itself is held back.

Looking something up

To find a word, use Search — it covers the whole book. To understand something, ask Miles, which answers from the same book and links you back to it. See "Contents, and searching the book" and "What Ask Miles is".

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