TECHNIQUES IN ORGANIZING
INFORMATION
(Brainstorming, Graphic organizers,
outline)
Techniques- are approaches or
methods you as a writer may use to
organize the information you have
gathered to accomplish your desired
aim and writing craft.
A. BRAINSTORMING
-it is a group creativity
technique by which efforts
are made to find a conclusion
for a specific problem by
gathering a list of ideas
spontaneously contributed
by its members.
-process of writing down
specific topics from different
sources.
-Popularized by Alex
Faickney Osborn in the 1953
book Applied Imagination.
-Information has a lot of
sources, either from one or
more person.
4 BRAINSTORMING TIPS BY MARK
NICHOL IN DAILY WRITING TIPS:
1. CUBING
-In this strategy, a topic or idea is
examined in 6 viewpoints.
-ask yourself for you to be able
to produce information.
 What is the topic?
Decisive
 What is it like or unlike?
Compare (similarities
and differences)
 What does it make you
think of? Associate
 What constituent parts is
it made of? Analyze
 How can it be used?
Apply
 How can you support or
oppose it? Argue
2. FREE WRITING
-Just keep on writing and not
minding errors in spelling
and grammar. The objective:
write what comes to your
mind. 500 words or more.
-continuous writing without
inhibitions and not minding
errors in spelling and
grammar.
3. LISTING
-list down what comes to your
mind.
4. MAPPING
-also known as clustering and
webbing, is a graphic form of
listing that simply involves jotting
down ideas on a large writing
surface and then making
connections…
-visual representation of
ideas and their connection
with one another.
5. RESEARCHING
B. GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
-is a communication tool
that uses visual symbols to
express knowledge,
 concepts, thoughts, and - a type of circular graph
ideas and the relationship which is divided into slices
between them. to illustrate numerical
-visual representation of proportion.
concepts that help us 8. GRAPH
structure information into - collection of all points
organizational patterns. whose coordinates satisfy a
given relation.
-line and bar graph.
TYPES OF GRAPHIC ORGANIZER: 9. TABLE
- a systematic arrangement
1. CONCEPT MAPS of data usually in rows and
- illustrate relationship in columns for ready
between 2 or more reference.
concepts.
2. WEBS
- shows how different
categories of information
relate to one another.
3. MIND MAPS
- are visual representations
of hierarchical information
that include a central idea or
image surrounded by
connected branches of
associated topics and idea.
4. FLOW DIAGRAM OR
SEQUENCE CHART
-show a series of steps or
events in the order in which
they will take place.
5. VENN DIAGRAM
- is used to identify
similarities and differences
between 2 or more topics.
-set criteria
6. ORGANIZATIONAL
- shows the structure of an
organization.
7. PIE CHART