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Collecting

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Collecting activities include:
  • Sketching -- drawing what you see.
  • Taking double-entry notes.
  • Listing sensory details, facts, impressions/reactions to some person, place, or thing.
  • Freewriting (also used as a brainstorming technique).
  • "Invisible writing" on the computer.

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