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Rephrasing explanations of major points several times.
"Repetition leads to learning," one science professor says. "I repeat major points several times from a different direction or in different words."
"No single explanation will be clear to all students," points out a professor of business administration. "By using different language or different examples, I maximize the chances that every student will eventually understand."
A political science professor also consciously alters the words he uses. "I have a tendency to say things twice," he says: "first, formally and then colloquially." An engineering professor reports that he develops the same point in two or three different modes, e.g., mathematically, verbally, and graphically.
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