Clustering
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Clustering highlights relationships among ideas. It can help you start getting your thoughts organized.
To cluster ideas
- Write your topic in the center of a sheet of paper.
- Draw a circle around the topic.
- Surround that circle with related ideas.
- Circle the related ideas and draw lines connecting them to the topic circle.
- Connect related ideas to other related ideas in the same way.
- Label the connecting lines with words that describe the relationship between the two connected ideas.