Er, no. It's more to do with academic writing conventions, you know, writing a bibliography and how to refer to sources in your text. That sort of thing.
This is the process of truly engaging with the text instead of passively just running your eyes over it, which will help you retain a lot more of what you read.
On turning eagerly to the text, one learns that the lady was a typist who found the sound of office typewriters worried her more and more until eventually she had to go into a mental hospital.
Similar studies tested whether students learned basic physics and chemistry concepts better by reading plain text or viewing pictures too and everyone do better with the help of pictures.