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CLUSTERING — schematic outline

  1. In a word or phrase, write your topic in the center of your paper and circle it.
  2. Also in a word or phrase, write down the main parts of your topic, circle them, and connect each part to the center.
  3. As you think of facts, details, related ideas, or examples, write these fragments down in a cluster around the main parts.

Sources

Invention: Getting Started with Writing
Copyright 2008, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. factcouraud. (2007, May 22). Clustering. Retrieved March 20, 2010, from Free Online Course Materials — USU OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.usu.edu/English/english-1010/clustering.html. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License
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