Techniques in Selecting and Organizing Information

• 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.