Techniques in Selecting and Organizing Information

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  • Brainstorming
    • This is the process of gathering ideas from every member of the working group.
    • It helps people establish patterns of ideas, develop new ways of thinking, activate background knowledge, and overcome mental block.
    • It perhaps the most popular tool in generating creative and rich ideas.
  • Types of Brainstorming
    Idea Map
    • It is a visual representation of ideas and their connections with one another.
    • Unlike in the idea list, it is more structured, thus, it is able to show how one idea subordinates another idea.
  • Types of Brainstorming
    Idea List
    • This method is appropriate to textual people, or those who are more comfortable in processing words than visuals.
    • It simply requires the people to write the main topic and then write down all related concepts below it.
  • Graphic Organizers
    • These are visual representations of concepts that help us structure information into organizational patterns. They present essential information and connect these pieces of information into a coherent framework.
  • Outline
    •  It is a tool for organizing ideas. It is used not only as a pre-writing strategy but also as a post-reading activity. It also ensures that every point the writer makes has sufficient supporting details.
  • Types of Outline
    Decimal Outline
    • kind of "Outline" that uses numbers as labels
  • Types of Outline
    Alphanumeric Outline
    • uses both letters and numbers as labels.
  • Kinds of Outline According to Structure
    Topic Outline 
    • uses words and phrases as its entries. Generally, a topic outline is used if the ideas being discussed can be arranged in a number of ways.
     
  • Kinds of Outline According to Structure
    Sentence Outline 
    • uses complete sentences as its entries. You use a sentence outline when the topic being discussed is complicated and requires details.