Techniques in Selecting and Organizing

• Who is the Greek Philosopher who has proof a person can use to persuade?

  Aristotle
• Three proofs a person can use to persuade:

  Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
• What is the source credibility?

  Ethos
• What are the emotional appeals?

  Pathos
• The controlling principle in the universe.

  Logos
• Logos can be achieved in two things:

  evidence and reasoning
• Techniques in Selecting and Organizing Information

  Brainstorming List, Graphic Organizer, Topic Outline, and Sentence Outline
• A group creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members.

  Brainstorming
• General rules in brainstorming:

  >Go for quantity

  >Withhold criticism

  >Welcome wild ideas

  >Combine and improve ideas
• This can be used to enhance students’ thinking skills by encouraging brainstorming, generating new ideas, connecting parts to the whole, drawing sequences, analyzing causes and effects, and many more.

  Graphic Organizers
• Are visual representation of knowledge that structures information by arranging important aspects of a concept or topic into a pattern using labels.

  Graphic Organizers
• The main function of a graphic organizer is to help present information in concise ways that highlight the organization and relationships of concepts.
• Most common graphic organizers:

  > Venn Diagram

  > KWL Charts

  > KWS Charts

  > Topic Generators

  > Fishbone

  > Y-chart

  > Vocabulary Map

  > Cornell Notes

  > Text-Think-Connect
• This organizer can be used to help students develop skills in comparing and contrasting similar and/or different information. This may consist of two or more circles.

  Venn Diagram
• This helps students organize information before, during, and after a lesson.

  KWL Chart
• A variation of KWL chart, this allows students to list down potential sources for a paper

  KWS Chart
• This allows students to think of associated topics based on the main topics or central ideas.

  Topic Generator
• A topic generator variation where it explores many aspects or effects of a complex topic.

  Fishbone
• This explores and describes three aspects of a topic, usually how it sounds like, looks like, and feels like.

  Y-chart
• This promotes vocabulary development. It usually asks students to define a word or provide synonyms or antonyms.

  Vocabulary Map
• This helps students set purpose, determine importance, and summarize content knowledge.

  Cornell Notes
• This graphic organizer asks students to record important information regarding the text in the "text" column, their interpretation of the text in the "think" column, and their personal connections with the text in the "connect" column.

  Text-Think-Connect
• This shows how an article is organized, or how it is constituted (including how its main and supporting relate to each other).

  Outline
• Remember that when outlining, there should always be at least two items for each level. Each main idea should always have two supporting details.
• An outline should be clear and orderly. Hence, it should follow a pattern.
• Two outline forms:

  Topic outline

  Sentence outline
• Outline that contains topics.

  Topic outline
• Outline that contains complete sentences

  Sentence outline
• How is an outline traditionally coded? (By order)

  > Roman Numerals

  > Capital Letters

  > Numbers

  > Small Letters