Techniques in selecting and

organizing information

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world around us.
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of You.
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GOOD ORDER IS THE
FOUNDATION OF ALL THINGS.
– Edmund Burke
A well written text is a product of
well selected and organized
information.
 
Learning the techniques in
selecting and organizing
information is vital in making
sense of what you read and in
putting your thoughts in print.
- Fulgencio (2018)
TECHNIQUES IN SELECTING AND
ORGANIZING INFORMATION
LEARNING THE MUSTS OF WRITING, MAKING AN EFFECTIVE READING
 Identify the idea being described by the following
statements:

1. A tool for generating creative and rich ideas _______________________

2. An act/ process of putting things into a particular arrangement or order
___________________
3. Are visual representations of concepts that meant to help us structure information
to organizational patterns _________________________
4. An action of carefully choosing someone or something as being the best or most
suitable __________________
5. Considered as a plan/ blueprint for writing; a summary that gives the essential
features of a text _____________________
 Identify the idea being described by the following
statements:

1. A tool for generating creative and rich ideas BRAINSTORMING

2. An act/ process of putting things into a particular arrangement or order
ORGANIZING
3. Are visual representations of concepts that meant to help us structure information
to organizational patterns GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
4. An action of carefully choosing someone or something as being the best or most
suitable SELECTING/ SELECTION
5. Considered as a plan/ blueprint for writing; a summary that gives the essential
features of a text OUTLINE
 Technique #1
Brainstorming

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 member.
 Technique #1
Brainstorming
How to go about it?

1. Decide/ determine your general or central topic.

2. Get ideas from everyone. Gather ideas from related credible materials.
3. Put all ideas in record.
4. Revisit the list. Evaluate the ideas recorded.
5. Use the list as a guide.

Methods in Brainstorming:

1. IDEA LIST – involves writing the main topic and listing down the related ideas
2. IDEA MAP – a visual representation of ideas and their connections with one another
- shows how one idea subordinates another idea
 Idea Map:

Idea List:
 Technique #2
Graphic
Organizer

 Visual displays of key content information designed to benefits those who have
difficulty organizing information
 Tool that is meant to help us clearly visualize how ideas are organized within a text.
 Provides us with a structure for ABSTRACT ideas.
 It can be categorized in certain ways according to the arrangement of information
1. hierarchical
2. conceptual
3. sequential
4. cyclical
 Technique #3
Outline

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”
- Yogi Berra
 
In the previous lessons, gathering and organizing information using brainstorming
and graphic organizer techniques got you started. Now, you should understand
that planning and structuring your bank of information is what will keep you
going.
 Technique #3
Outline

According to Sandagan (2016) an outline is valuable for several

purposes:

1. for organizing your thought before writing,

2. for checking the organization of a piece after it has been written, and
3. for understanding a different reading assignment.
 Technique #3
Outline
KINDS OF OUTLINE

A. Topic Outline
When using this outline, ideas are written in short phrases arranged to show the development of
writing. This outline is suited for short document such as exposition of a process or classification.

B. Sentence Outline
In sentence outline, ideas are written in complete sentence which may serve as topic sentence in a
paragraph as you write your draft. Opposite to a topic outline, this is best used for longer papers,
such as research paper.

(Gerald J. Alred, et al., Handbook of Technical Writing, 8th ed. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006)