# What concrete exercises and habits does Sargent (1916, Ch. VII para 5 and Ch. VIII paras 3-5 and 10-14) prescribe to develop recollection and a plot-idea store, and how does he rank them?

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1916 practice. Sargent prescribes a recall exercise (read one page of facts, write down what you remember; list the day's happenings each night; recall the week's items on Sunday without notes) and ranks trained recollection above note-taking. He allows a simple loose-leaf or card note book with rough classes, a titles section, only novel ideas, and no filing by comedy or drama. Entries get rewritten at entry time by translating the old into the new. He gives no schedule beyond these, no measures of improvement and no evidence the exercises work.

1916 practice. Sargent prescribes a recall exercise (read one page of facts, write down what you remember; list the day's happenings each night; recall the week's items on Sunday without notes) and ranks trained recollection above note-taking. He allows a simple loose-leaf or card note book with rough classes, a titles section, only novel ideas, and no filing by comedy or drama. Entries get rewritten at entry time by translating the old into the new. He gives no schedule beyond these, no measures of improvement and no evidence the exercises work.

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- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice. Sargent prescribes a recall exercise (read one page of facts, write down what you remember; list the day's happenings each night; recall the week's items on Sunday without notes) and ranks trained recollection above note-taking. He allows a simple loose-leaf or card note book with rough classes, a titles section, only novel ideas, and no filing by comedy or drama. Entries get rewritten at entry time by translating the old into the new. He gives no schedule beyond these, no measures of improvement and no evidence the exercises work. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.flat[56358:75899] (Ch. VII start to Ch. VIII end) · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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