Techniques in Selecting and Organizing Information

• This is an informal way of generating topics to write about or points to make about your topic.

  Brainstorming
• Name the 5 Methods in Brainstorming?

  Idea List, Idea Map, Free Writing, Cubing, Researching
• This method of brainstorming simply involves listing of ideas about a particular topic.

  Idea Map
• This method of brainstorming is also called as webbing or clustering and this are visual representation of ideas and their connections with one another.

  Idea Map
• This method of brainstorming is similar to brainstorming but is written in sentence and paragraph form without stopping.

  Free Writing
• This method of brainstorming is an idea that is examined from six distinct viewpoints

  • You compare the topic (what is it?)
  • Compare and contrast it (what is it like or unlike?)
  • What do you associate it with (what does it remind you of?)
  • Analyze it (what are its parts?)
  • Apply it (in what ways can it be utilized)
  • Argue for or against it (in what ways can you support or oppose it?)

  Cubing
• This method of brainstorming is a process of systematic inquiry that entails collection of data, documentation of critical information, and analysis and interpretation of that data/information.

  Researching
• These are are visual representations of concepts that help you structure information into organizational pattern.

  Graphic Organizers
• Name the 10 Types of Graphic Organizers.

  Clue:

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  P___ D______

  S_____ of E____ C____

  F_______ M__

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  P_________ M__

  Venn Diagram, Network Tree, Spider Map, Problem-Solution Map, Timeline, Plot Diagram, Series of Event Chain, Fishbone Map, Cycle, Persuasion Map
• This type of graphic organizer is use to compare and contrast ideas and events, uses two or more overlapping circles to show similar and different attributes.

  Venn Diagram
• This type of graphic organizer is used to present hierarchy, classification, and branching. They are useful in showing relationships of scientific categories, family trees, and even lineages.

  Network Tree
• This type of graphic organizer is also called semantic map. It is used to investigate and enumerate various aspects of a central idea, which could be a concept, topic, or theme.

  Spider Map
• This type of graphic organizer displays the nature of the problem and how it can be solved.

  Problem-Solution Map
• This type of graphic organizer is used to show how events occurred chronologically through a long bar labeled with dates and specific events.

  Timeline
• Name the 2 Types of Timeline.

  Linear Timeline and Comparative Timeline
• This type of timeline shows how events happened within one period.

  Linear Timeline
• This type of timeline shows two sets of events that happened within the same period of time.

  Comparative Timeline
• This type of graphic organizer is used to map events in a story, making it easier to analyze the major parts of the plot.

  Plot Diagram
• This type of graphic organizer is used to show the logical sequence of events.

  Series of Event Chain
• This type of graphic organizer is used to better understand the casual relationship of a complex phenomenon and shows the factors that cause a specific event or problem, as well as details of each cause.

  Fishbone Map
• This type of graphic organizer is used to describe how series of events interact to produce as set of results repeatedly?

  Cycle
• This type of graphic organizer is used to map out arguments and evidence that prove a viewpoint.

  Persuasion Map
• This is a tool for organizing ideas. This shows how the part of the text are related to one another as parts that are equal importance, or sections that are subordinate to a main idea.

  Outline
• Name the 2 Outline Formats.

  Decimal Outline and Alphanumeric Outline
• This outline formal uses numbers as labels.

  Decimal Outline
• This outline format uses letters and numbers as labels.

  Alphanumeric Outline
• Name the 2 Kinds of Outline.

  Topic Outline and Sentence Outline
• This kind of outline uses words and phrases for its entries and used if the ideas being discussed can be arranged in a number of ways?

  Topic Outline
• This kind of outline uses complete sentences for its entries and used when the topic being discussed is complicated and requires a lot of details.

  Sentence Outline
• What method in Brainstorming is this?

  Idea Map

  
• What method of Brainstorming is this?

  Idea List

  
• What type of Graphic Organizer is this?

  Venn Diagram

  
• What type of Graphic Organizer is this?

  Network Tree

  
• What type of Graphic Organizer is this?

  Spider Map

  
• What type of Graphic Organizer is this?

  Problem-Solution Map

  
• What type of Timeline is this?

  Linear Timeline

  
• What type of Timeline is this?

  Comparative Timeline

  
• What type of Graphic Organizer is this?

  Plot Diagram

  
• What type of Graphic Organizer is this?

  Timeline

  
• What type of Graphic Organizer is this?

  Series of Events Chain