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CLUSTERING

CLUSTERING , also called MAPPING, is a strategy for visually organizing your ideas.

•  Start with your subject/topic circled at the top of the page, and connect it with arrows to circles for each subdivision of the subject/topic. (Create as many as you need. There is not set number.)

•  Label each new circle as a different subdivision of your subject/topic.

•  Then, from the subdivision circles , draw a new set of arrows to connect to detail circles .

•  Fill each detail circle with one example, explanation, or source information that develops the idea of the corresponding subdivision.

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