SELECTING AND ORGANIZING INFORMATION - LESSON 2

Select and Organize

Select means choosing what’s important and relevant from all the available information, it’s more on deciding what to include on a topic and what to leave out. It involves being critical thinking, if the available information is useful, credible or if it supports the topic itself and goal.

Organizing means structuring the selected information in a clear and logical way. It is crucial to arrange ideas in order to make them easy to understand and follow. Good organization improves clarity, makes your message more persuasive, and even enhances memory retention.

Selecting and organizing itself can avoid overwhelm and confusion, and to create better essays, presentations, and studies.

Brainstorming is an informal way to come up with writing topics and can be done anytime during the writing process. It helps you gather ideas and focus on the ones that matter most
It helps writers unlock fresh ideas, clarify their thoughts, and shape a strong foundation of their work.

Graphic organizing are effective and helpful tools that organizes content and ideas to understand and remember. They allow you to arrange ideas visually so you can clearly see how different concepts are connected.
Kinds of Graphic Organizers:
- Mind Map - Represents your knowledge of a concept or idea. Great for brainstorming and expanding on a topics or ideas
- Venn Diagram - Uses to show the similarities and differences. It is a visual tool that uses overlapping circles to show how different objects or ideas share similar traits
- Flowchart - It is a visual tool that shows the steps of a process in order using shapes and arrows, making it easy to understand what happens first, next and last. It helps make the process easy to understand and follow.