Organize This!

Chapter 6 Envision and Organization

One of the most important steps in writing a paper is organization. The outcome and quality rely solely on this because without organization it is just a bunch of bullet points and ideas hanging in the air. There are many ways to organize all of your thoughts and ideas so that you can get an idea of how your paper is going to flow. Many people use bubble webs, flowcharts, and other mapping formats to see all of their ideas in front of them to form them into one paper.

Visualizing what you have makes it easier to form all of your ideas together to make your thoughts flow and make sense. This is extremely important and is used by film makers and writers all over the world. Visual maps help sort your thoughts and help you to write an outline. Outlines are like a more detailed organization tool and can help you see where you want all of your ideas to go in the paper. This is where you really see how well your paper flows. Every good paper has a good flow to it and it doesn’t jump all over the place. This is where transitioning techniques come into play

Transitioning makes the jump between paragraphs smooth and change bullet points sometimes without the reader even realizing it. You should identify links between different points of your paper in your organizational map at the beginning of the process and put those ideas next to each other in your outlines and drafts for good flow and transition.

Once you start completing your drafts you should always read over it and have your peers read them to ensure you have good flow and transition among other things.