[1. Copying literally:—Defects of this plan.]

[2. Committing to memory word for word.]

Profitable only for brief portions of a book.

Memory in extension and intension.

[3. Making Abstracts.]

Variety of modes of abstracting.

[4. Locke's plan of reading.]

A sense of Form must concur with abstracting.

Example from the Practice of Medicine.

Example from the Oratorical Art