Cluster of GMO Controversy

In my cluster, I started by branching out the three main groups involved with the issue, the public, scientists, and government organizations, and then split those main groups into the factions present within each group. I then indicated which side of the issue each group, in general, supports. After this, I showed the reasons each group either supports or opposes the GMOs.

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After looking at Davis's and Dieter's clusters, I saw that they organized their clusters much better than I did. Their clusters flowed in a natural and easy to follow manner while mine jumped around. I can see how this method would be helpful to the writing processes of many people; it can be used to quickly organize  large amount of information. It can also be used to find relationships between various pieces of information. Despite these benefits, I find that graphic organizers are not helpful to me; I prefer to organize my ideas and information in my mind and transfer that directly into a written draft. When using graphic organizers I tend to forget to add key pieces of information and lose track of how I want to organize various pieces of information.