As Jill begins to prepare for her informative speech, she tries to come up with topic ideas by first writing down the name of th
e town where she was born, Chicago, and then writing down other words she associates with it. Eventually, she has a complex web of ideas spilled across the page including tourist attractions, sports teams, famous people who live or work there, and the great fire that nearly destroyed the city. What process has she used to come up with these potential topics?
Jill is in the stage of the pre-writing process where she is accumulating a lot of ideas in a non-linear pattern and web made using lines and circles to associate or link one idea to the other. <em>The process she has come up with is "</em><u><em>clustering</em></u><em>" that includes the brainstorming of ideas and free-associating that would assist her to link the ideas by developing a map-like structure or web.</em> This process begins with choosing a word and continues by affiliating other content words affiliating to it and ending in a web-like structure or accumulation of a group of ideas together to be presented. It helps the author to explore different and distinctive ideas and create an outline that links them.
An informative speech is a speech in which a lot of information is provided about the topic to the audience. The first step involves the process of generating the main idea of the speech. It needs to be a topic about which the information can be given to the audience. The next step involves the process of brainstorming the main ideas. The process of brainstorming involves personal inventory, clustering, mind mapping and researching. Under the process of clustering, different ideas are clustered and grouped under certain categories. In the given situation, Jill is using the clustering method to group her ideas.
