
Cubing
Matt continued playing around with his smoking on campus topic with a cubing exercise. Like clustering, cubing is a technique that works particularly well for visual learners. To begin, envision your topic as a six-sided cube and hover your mouse over the grid below to see the general topic questions. Then, remove your mouse to see and answer more specific questions about your topic.


What does it look like? What special features does it have?

What is it similar to? What is it different from?

What does this topic remind you of? Why? What is the relationship?

What are the parts of your idea? How are the parts related?

What is the support for your idea? What are the counterarguments against it?

How can your idea be put to use? What do you do with it?