 is an informal way of generating topics to write

about or points to make about your topic

 the most popular tool in generating creative
and rich ideas
 helps people establish patterns of ideas,
develop new ways of thinking, activate
background knowledge, and overcome mental
block
 simply involves listing of ideas about a particular topic
 requires writing the main topic and all related concepts below it
 appropriate for textual people, or those who are more
comfortable in processing words than visuals
 helps to find the main idea and supporting details from
numerous listed ideas
 also called as webbing or clustering
visual representation of ideas and their connections with one
another
 more structured and is able to show how one idea subordinates
another idea
 similar to brainstorming but is written in sentence and
paragraph form without stopping
 traditionally seen as a prewriting technique in academic
environments, in which a person writes continuously for a
set period of time without worrying about rhetorical
concerns or conventions and mechanics
an idea is examined from six
distinct viewpoints
Describe Compare Associate

Analyze Apply Argue

 is a process of systematic inquiry that entails
collection of data, documentation of critical
information, and analysis and interpretation of
that data/information
 a creative and systematic work undertaken to
increase the stock knowledge, including knowledge
of humans, culture and society
 are visual representations of concepts that help you structure
information into organizational pattern
 present essential information and connect these pieces of
information into a coherent framework
 helpful tools for brainstorming, facilitating reading and
writing, promoting active learning, and accessing previous
knowledge and experiences
 is use to compare and contrast
ideas and events
 uses two or more overlapping
circles to show similar and
different attributes
 used to present hierarchy,
classification, and branching
 useful in showing relationships
of scientific categories, family
trees, and even lineages
 also known as semantic map
used to investigate and
enumerate various aspects of a
central idea, which could be a
concept, topic, or theme
 displays the nature of the
problem and how it can be
solved
 usually contains the problem
description, its causes and
effects, and logical solutions
 used to show how events occurred
chronologically through a long bar
labeled with dates and specific events
 can be linear or comparative
 shows how events
happened within one
period
 shows two sets of
events that happened
within the same period
of time
 used to map events
in a story, making it
easier to analyze the
major parts of the
plot
 used to show the
logical sequence of
events
 used to better understand
the casual relationship of a
complex phenomenon
 shows the factors that
cause a specific event or
problem, as well as details
of each cause
 used to describe how
series of events interact to
produce as set of results
repeatedly
 used to map out arguments
and evidence that prove a
viewpoint
 useful when processing
persuasive or argumentative
texts
 is a tool for organizing ideas
 used not only as a pre-writing  uses numbers as labels
strategy but also a post-reading
activity  uses both letters and
 shows how the part of a text are numbers as labels
related to one another as parts
that are of equal importance, or
sections that are subordinate to a
main idea
 uses words and phrases for
its entries
 used if the ideas being
discussed can be arranged in
a number of ways
 uses complete sentences
for its entries
 used when the topic being
discussed is complicated and
requires a lot of details