Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Addendum to Chapter 3- Kristi Seay

Minute blog:
This chapter actually gave more techniques/strategies to discover various ideas to enhance your writing abilities. It also included ways to organize and synthesize (condense) it into a brief format.
I don't have any questions at this point.

Summarize/Paraphrase:
There are techniques that can be utilized to help the writer to discover more information, enhance learning. These would include: listing keywords, freewriting (write about what you already know and think about the subject), make a list of questions, answer the questions Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?, brainstorming (also recording what you know), and clustering (cause/effect relationships). It also included various ways to collect information by keeping a notebook or journal. These notebooks can vary between a double entry, field, vocabulary notebooks. Another techniques include the minute paper, muddiest point, preconception check and paraphrasing. Utilizing inventive dialogue or interview can also give another challenging way to research a topic. Process flowcharts, timelines and pedigree charts can be great visual aids.

Daily life:
Again, these techniques can be used in various modalities to aid in writing more effectively.
They can assist the writer to investigate a topic in a different demension to enhance the subject matter.

Kristi Seay

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