RNW

• • Techniques are approaches or methods you as a writer may use to organize the information you have gathered, to accomplish your desired.
• Brainstorming - Process of writing down specific topics gathered from different sources
• Brainstorming - It involves documenting & coming up with a list of topics.
• Free Writing - this is another way of brainstorming, you may set a time limit and several words or pages. Just write. It allows someone to work without inhibitions
• Listing - Just list a topic. Then, make a sub-list of things you could write about each topic.
• Researching - You must search from the library or websites and make a list or map of the new ideas. This technique requires you to write the main topic and write down all related concepts below it.
• Graphic Organizer - uses visual symbols that express thought ideas,

  knowledge concepts, and the relationships

  between them. As a communication tool,

  their ideas and to communicate them

  to others. It is often done before

  writing. It helps the writers to be more coherent.
• Basic Outline - Thesis statement / Main Idea
• Mind Map - is used to represent your knowledge of a concept or idea. It is useful for brainstorming and exploring topics or ideas. To create it, start with an image or a word that represents the central idea. Add branches of major ideas related to the central idea. You can further expand those ideas by adding more branches.

  
• Flow chart - is used to show the different steps in a process. It contains information on the stages of a process in the order that it must be completed.

  
• Venn Diagram - The _____is used when the writer compares & contrasts

  the elements.

  
• Topical Organizer - The ____ organizer allows the writer to map out their idea.
• Type of ____ organizer?

  
• Type of ____ organizer?

  
• Outline - An _____ organizes materials sequentially, which allows you to group materials by similar concepts or content and put them into logical order. The arrangement follows a consistent principle
• Topic outline - The _____ uses phrases only. There are no sentences. Verbal may be used.
• Sentence outline - A _____ provides more information than a topic outline.
• Mapping - A graphic form of the listing is ____ which is sometimes called webbing or clustering. It involves writing down ideas and then making connections by associating similar ideas with color-coded circles or underlined dominant themes, or using distinct patterns and then showing the relationship by linking with the lines