READING & Writing

• Writers Block - Fear of the blank sheet
• Writers Block - Page fright
• Writers Block - Writing without the muse (inspiration)
• Writers Block - Inability to get things started
• POSITIVE SELF-TALK : Motivate yourself
• LISTING YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS: Remind yourself of what you have accompanied in the past
• BRAINSTORM - Think of relevant ideas
• BRAINSTORM - Research
• BRAINSTORM - Use your background knowledge
• DIVIDE LARGE TASKS - Write one part at a time
• CONCEDE ITS EXISTENCE - Do not entertain the feeling of not wanting to write
• READ FOR A BREAK - Best ideas come when the mind is rested
• ESTABLISH A ROUTINE - Prepare yourself to write when that specific time

  comes
• SHOW UP FOR WORK - Commit to a time for writing
• COPE WITH BADNESS - Do not think what you have written in bad
• writing: is a process that involves editing and revising until

  the output becomes good
• INTERVIEW: Recording oneself using a device from generated responses/ideas
• REINVENT YOUR SPACE: Create an environment conducive for writing
• GO BACK TO THE START: Ask yourself the purpose as to why you are writing
• MORNING PAGES: Serves as a dumping site of the writer
• MORNING PAGES: Is a tool where the writer disposes ideas that get in the way of writing
• MORNING PAGES: Is not something that the writer may use for his actual message
• MORNING PAGES: Is a piece of writing that is made up of three

  pages
• MORNING PAGES: Is done usually before a writer starts writing
• MORNING PAGES: Takes a writer’s mind off of things that are not related to his writing task
• GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS: A reader makes meaning of the different information that they encountered from a text
• GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS: Is a systematic illustration of ideas taken from a text you’ve read
• GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS: It is a more interesting way of providing an overview of a text
• GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS: May be used to summarize information from an academic paper
• GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS: For qualitative research, these may be used to verbalize the conceptual/theoretical framework
• VENN DIAGRAM: illustrates similarities and differences between concepts
• T-CHART (table): illustrates the differences between concepts (boy vs. girl)
• DATA RETRIEVAL CHART: is a modified version of a t-chart; list down different characteristics of a particular concept (purpose)
• DATA STORAGE CHART: contains missing elements
• FLOWCHART: shows sequence in events; steps in a process
• ISHIKAWA DIAGRAM (fishbone technique): also shows causes and effects
• SUNGRAM: shows minor topics arising from a major topic
• PYRAMID: shows hierarchy of concepts
• TIMELINE: shows sequencing of events
• TIMELINE: limited to events