Bryan Lee's List: Diocesan Writing Workshop - 2011

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  • These must be followed all the time. Writing is a process, not a kind of magic.
• they should brainstorm and write down some questions about the topic that interest them
• come up with key words
• While it might seem the easiest thing to get all your information from the Internet, it is not the best thing to do
• Primary sources include diaries, journals, speeches, interviews, letters, memos, manuscripts
• Memoirs and autobiographies
• write as many experts as they can
• Once they have gathered together many different sources, they need to put them in some sort of order.
• write the main idea in the center of the page — it may be a word or a phrase — then place related ideas on branches that fan out from this central idea
• Concept Mapping
• There are also types of software that help with concept mapping. Inspiration®, for Grade Six to Adult, and Kidspiration™, for Grades K — 5, are two that come to mind. Visit Inspiration Software for more. Also, for the Palm Handhelds, there is the Hi-CE PICoMap software.

  • I do NOT advise doing this at first. The problem lies in your unfamiliarity with the software. If you are confused by how to get the ideas on "paper" then you will not focus your attention on your paper's thesis.
• clustering allows them to begin without clear ideas

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• 1. Start with general reference sources and dictionaries.

   

  Here are just a few of them, for more please refer to the original post: Keyword Research : Where to Start?

                  

  Dictionary	Contains
  The free dictionary	Word definition(s), set phrases/ idioms (use them to lighten up your writing style), examples of usage. Words of the same root (inflected words and derivations), thesaurus, classic literature mentions, keyword phrases, related acronyms.
  Synonym.com	Word synonyms and antonyms.
  Meta Glossary	Word definitions, related words and synonyms.
  Reference.com	Your core term synonyms and definitions.

  • These are still the best bet!

• 3. Use social media sites to analyze which words real people are using to tag your industry related content:

                  

  Features/Tools	Twitter Search	Del.icio.us related terms	Facebook Lexicon
  Data source	Twitter	Del.icio.us	Facebook
  How to use it.	See your term in live context.	See your term related tags.	See how often your term is mentioned across FB walls.

  • This is all well and good, but it helps more for papers that are about current events. Consider, after all, the database it searches: Twitter. Twitter is a group of what people are saying right now, and may not be the source you seek.
• 7. Use your internal analytics reports to get an idea of your visitors’ preferences: here is a huge collection of Google Analytics advanced tips that can help you to do that.

  • This doesn't help those not using keyword searches for academic purposes.

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• The only way anyone can determine if a site is educationally sound is to have a prior knowledge base in the topic

• When evaluating information on the Internet, you need to consider authority, accessibility, and applicability before using it with your classes. I have determined 26 criteria to use when evaluating sites:

   
   
  1. Authority
   
  2. Bias
   
  3. Citations
   
  4. Dates
   
  5. Efficiency
   
  6. Fallacy
   
  7. Graphics
   
  8. Handicapped accessibility
   
  9. Information ability
   
  10. Jerry-built
   
  11. Knowledge
   
  12. Links
   
  13. Misinformation
   
  14. Navigability
   
  15. Online research
   
  16. Pertinent
   
  17. Quantity of info
   
  18. Requirements
   
  19. Scholastic reviews
   
  20. Thoroughness
   
  21. Uniqueness
   
  22. Verifiable
   
  23. 5 W's
   
  24. Xtra information
   
  25. Yahoo
   
  26. Zen