SELECTING AND ORGANIZING INFORMATION

Brainstorming

- Originally used by the American

businessman Alex Osborn in 1953 as a

strategy for his advertising agents to pitch in

highly innovative marketing plans

Problem

- supposed to brainstorm about

Suggestion

- things/concepts/ideas that you wish to

contribute to alleviate the problem, if not

solve it

Cubing

- examining viewpoints

DESCRIBE

What is X like?

COMPARE

Similar/different to what? How?

COMBINE

What situations,

people or things does X remind you of? What| makes you think of X?

What is X related to?

ANALYSE

How is it made, what is it made of? What is it a part of?

APPLY

What can you do with X?

What is X suited for? How

and what do you use it for?

DEBATE

Compare good and bad sides.

Freewriting

- Writing unlimited, uninhibited ideas

about the topic

Listing

- Listing these associated with topics

Mapping

- also called webbing or clustering where

you write down all ideas and map their

connections to each other

Researching

- Discovering facts by investigation

Graphic organizers (GO)

are visual

representations of a structurally

arranged set of discourse elements

(wyson. 2018).

Graphic organizer (GO)

also known as a knowledge maр,

concept map, story map, cognitive

organizer, advance organizer, or concept

diagram.

Graphic organizers (GO)

a pedagogical tool that uses visual

symbols to express knowledge and

concepts through relationships between

them. It aims to provide a visual aid to

facilitate learning and instruction.

Visual Representations

- They typically take the form of tables,

graphs, and charts, stimulating the eyes.

Structurally Arranged

- They help you compartmentalize the pool of

data you have with you making them appeal

to you and others.

Discourse Elements

- Only vital information should be

compartmentalized.

Table

- The simplest and most widely utilized GO

Venn Diagram

- It is used to compare and contrast ideas. It is

one of the most commonly-used GOs used to

display comparison and contrasts of two (or

more) sets of data.

Cause and Effect

- Also called fishbone diagram, it is a graphical

tool for displaying a list of causes associated

with a specific effect

Cycle

- It describes how a series of events interact as

a set of results repeatedly.

Concept Map

- It depicts suggested relationships between

concepts.

Flow Chart

- It is used to show the chronology of events

in a narrative or stages in a process.

Plot Diagram

- This is used to map events in the story and

analyze major parts of the plot.

Topic Outline

- Outlining organizes information in a neat list,

depending on your specific need for the

information you just arranged.

outline

is generally defined as a group of

information structured in an organized list

(Wyson, 2018).

keywords and/or key

phrases

defining characteristic of a topic outline

is that you only use __________ in filling the outline.

alphanumeric format and decimal format

Two formatting styles of outlines:

Sentence Outline

It contrasts with topic outlines by explaining

that topic outlines are composed after you

are exposed to a pool of information needed

to be organized into a neat list.

sentence

outline

is needed when the information

must come from you.