Some of them are: reading through notes you have made in classes, then re-writing them until they are memorised; using revision books; making mind maps and charts; using cue cards to write short condensed notes to make it easier to remember; making a voice recording of the information and playing it back over and over again.
When I was talking to Scott Graham of Frantic Assembly recently, he talked eloquently about working with Bryony Lavery on Stockholm and how she expressed the wish to write silence, condensing a scene to the point where "words were redundant".
And new material written to condense the plots and combine characters (by Paulette Kringslover, a staff writer on Fox's "Mulaney") has led to some wince-inducing couplets, such as: Escaping thus from nature's turmoil, We'll sail the stars to seek a wormhole.
He writes, "By condensing an entire year into a word, are we being attention-deficit reductive?
His writing is condensed and direct, almost austere in places, and is meant to be read rather than delivered orally.
As a dramatist, you get used to writing in a condensed form.
In an early chapter, Stanley writes that Phil Spector "condensed pop to romance and sex, crushes and breakups, love and pride.
Terribly written and so condensed that the clotted history it tells is accessible only to tartaned anoraks.
Jan Levy Tranen supplies the literate lyrics, mostly unrhymed and firmly grounded in Shaw's words, and Austin Pendleton wrote the smartly condensed book.
It's full of his highly composed, prickly and powerfully condensed writing, descended as much from Iannis Xenakis as from Andrew Hill.
