When completing writeups if you are just copying quickly from another journal, mostly you just copy it blindly word to word (if u r not skipping words and even if u r, u might do the skipping also blindly, not caring for grammatical mistakes).
You tend to copy word to word, buffering a small amount, without making sense of what you are reading or writing. Sometimes you don't even realize if the sentence you are copying has grammatical mistakes coz u don't buffer the entire sentence. This is like xeroxing. So it might look like its a no-brainer. You don't need to think or do processing.
The interesting find is: If you understand while reading and then write, it requires lesser processing!
Accidental experimental Proof:
I was copying a writeup at 2.30AM, tired. I was following the xeroxing method as always and was doing quite well and not sleepy. Then I tried understanding the sentences and writing. And I relaxed and sleepy! Plus I required lesser time to write the same amount of content.
That was not an intentional experiment so there r no psychological effects.
There's a con though to the 2nd method of copying: You can't sing or hum your favourite tune while understanding (reading) though u can do that while writing. So in other words, u can't multi-task efficiently. But maybe girls wont find even doing that difficult as I hear, girls are better at multi-tasking :)
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