chunking

(noun)

The act of retaining more information through strategically combining concepts.

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Examples of chunking in the following topics:

  • Visuals

    • Focus on chunking your information, organizing your content, ensuring relevance, creating visual alignment, and emphasizing a single main point.

  • Introduction

    • But as a working twenty-first century adult I try to write about material that can be covered in short chunks of verbiage.

  • Write Productively-Part I

    • A good chunk of the explosive growth in e-mail communication over the last 10-15 years consists of jokes and other materials meant to amuse us.

  • Write Productively-Part II

    • Business writers can approximate this action by using lots of personal pronouns (especially "you" and "your"), chopping messages into easily identifiable chunks of text, and highlighting important contentions or requests with bold lettering or other typographical techniques.

  • Getting the Most Out of Your Time

    • Set aside a 90-minutes chunk of time each day during which you allow only the President of the United States or your spouse to reach you.