Linear/Spatial strategies: Space

Spatial strategies are helpful for remembering relatively concrete arrays of information.

In our country, for example, we tend to categorize a state like Vermont as a northeastern state and Arizona as a southwestern state.

Linear/Spatial strategies: Time

Narrative or sequencing strategies are helpful for information in a temporal fashion.

Recently, the course instructor read "The History of the English Speaking People" by Winston Churchill.

In theses series of four books, the reader is led through a fascinating narrative of information and facts that explain not only what happened at particular periods of history, but also why the times made the occurrences of history probable. To have organized the book in any way other than as a narrative would have diminished the quality of the information.

Linear/Spatial strategies: Procedure

Procedural strategies imply the use of rules, time, and sequence.

If time is an implicit requisite of organizing by procedure, sequence is the explicit requisite.

Can you think of a procedural organization method used in this course?

Linear/Spatial strategies: Exposition

Exposition strategies are organized around induction and deduction. One could also argue that abduction is an effective exposition strategy.

One way to think of deductive and inductive is to view deductive as coming from the top down (for example, Gagne's hierarchies). Conversely, one could argue that Freud used inductive reasoning in organizing information during psychoanalysis.

Abductive reasoning is used in semiotics, the study of signs. Sherlock Holmes is said by some to have employed abductive reasoning.