As a former college student think back to one of those days, either at the dorm or the library, when you were reviewing your notes from the prior-day’s lecture only to find your hen-scratching devoid of some key phrase or word. As Murphy’s Law always dictated, that missing word or words would lead to some major head-scratching as you tried to figure out just what it was the professor had said.

At the same time a sense of frustration or anger would emerge as you soon realized that despite trying to record every key idea the instructor had revealed during class, somewhere along the line your concentration had waned and you had missed some major concept.

And, as a news reporter, think back to the day you forgot your tape recorder and you had to do that critical interview strictly with pen and paper. Back at the newsroom, when you were looking at your notes, your sense of excitement dwindled despite the fact that your source revealed some amazing insight. In your note-taking you realized that you were missing a couple of words from key phrases. Those missing words being truly essential materials, you found that were unable to recreate the exact quote that would have brought greater strength to the article you were about to write.

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