Techniques in Selecting & Organizing Information Flashcards
Brainstorming
generating ideas spontaneously in a group setting
Graphic Organizer
Visual representations of concepts that help us structure information into organizational patterns
Graphic Organizer Type: Venn Diagram
- Used to compare and contrast ideas and events
- Uses two or more overlapping circles to show similar and different attributes
Graphic Organizer Type: Network Tree
- Used to represent hierchy, branching, and classification
- Useful in showing relationships of scientific categories, family trees, and even lineages
Graphic Organizer Type: Spider Map
Used to investigate and enumerate various aspects of central idea
Graphic Organizer Type: Problem-Solution Map
- Displays the nature of the problem and how it can be solved
- Usually contains the problem’s description, its causes and effects, and logical solutions
Graphic Organizer Type: Timeline
- used to show how events occurred chronologically thought a long bar labeled with dates and specific events
- can be linear or comparative
Graphic Organizer Type: Plot Diagram
- A toll used to map events in the story
- Used to analyze the major parts of a plot
- Major Events
- Exposition
- Inciting moment
- Rising Action
- Climax
- Falling Action
- Resolution
Graphic Organizer Type: Series of Events Chain
Used to show the logical sequence of events
Graphic Organizer Type: Fishbone Map
- Used to better understand the causal relationship of a complex phenomenon
- Describe how a series of events interact to produce a set of results repeatedly
Graphic Organizer Type: Cycle
Used to describe how a series of events interact to produce a set of result repeatedly
Topic
It is the subject that is being discussed or has been written or thought about
Topic Sentence
It is a sentence that summarizes the main idea of a paragraph
Sentence Outline
It is a sentence that summarizes the main idea of a paragraph
Topic Outline
Used to provide skeletal overview of the topics in a given text
