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Organizing Info
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Before conquering that intimidating paper, it is important to organize
yourself and prepare properly. Take some advice from the experts in
two categories:
Outlines
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Organization Methods
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Featured Sites
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The Essay - Working Bibliography
(U Victoria)
- Research and notetaking strategy.
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Taking Notes from Research Reading
(U Toronto)
- Short tips on how to take notes as you're researching.
Outlining
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Hierarchical Outline
(U Victoria)
- A nicely done, illustrated example of constructing an outline.
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The Essay - The Body Of The Essay
(U Victoria)
- A visual map for organizing the body of your essay.
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Outlines
(Princeton U)
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Developing an Outline
(Purdue U)
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Sample Outline
(Purdue U)
- A detailed sample of an outline for a term paper.
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Organizing information by cubing, mapping and more
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Tables
(U Victoria)
- A nicely done, illustrated example of organizing information in
tables.
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Sequential Diagram
(U Victoria)
- A nicely done, illustrated example of organizing information
with sequential diagrams.
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List Structures
(U Victoria)
- A nicely done, illustrated example of how to organize using list
structures.
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Concept Mapping
(U Victoria)
- A nicely done, illustrated example of concept mapping.
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The Essay - Methods Of Organization
(U Victoria)
- Organizing in chronological order, by classification, cause and
effect, and others.
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Clustering Ideas
(U Richmond)
- "Clustering is a type of prewriting that allows you to
explore many ideas as soon as they occur to you. Like
brainstorming or free associating, clustering allows you to begin
without clear ideas."
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Exploring Ideas Through "Cubing"
(U Richmond)
- "Cubing is a writing exercise used as a prewriting
technique. Cubing allows a writer to explore various aspects of a
topic, forcing a writer to think and re-think a topic."
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Glossing
(U Richmond)
- "Glossing is a method that can be used by writers to assist
them in forming the concept of their papers. It names the main
idea shared by a group of sentences in a paragraph and allows the
writer to see if this idea is related and supports the concept of
his paper."
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Mapping as Prewriting
(Brigham Young U)
- Mapping--visually connecting ideas and the relationships between
them to get a sense of the overall meaning.
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