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Categorizing Details
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Categorizing
To categorize means to sort into groups.
One detail can fit into more than one category.
When you take notes on your details, tag them with relevant categories to help you sort them later.
When you are finished tagging all of your notes, look at the tags to see which details might go together well. Use these groups to create your paragraphs in your draft.
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3. Example Notecard for the Topic Does owning a gun make you safer?
In 160 active shooter cases investigated by the FBI, only one was stopped by a private citizen with a gun. 21 were stopped by unarmed citizens. Source: Donahue, John. “Facts Do Not Support Claim that Guns Make Us Safer.” Stanford Law School Legal Aggregate. October 12, Accessed April 4, Tags/categories: against gun ownership, active shooter cases, “good guy with a gun” theory
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4. Example Notecard for the Topic Does owning a gun make you safer?
“States with higher levels of household gun ownership have higher levels of firearm crime and do not have lower levels of other types of crime.” Source: Hemenway, David. “Does Owning a Gun Make You Safer?” LA Times. August 4, Tags/categories: against gun ownership, effect of guns on crime rates
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5. What categories might this detail fit into?
“Despite the very strict ban on guns in the United Kingdom (UK), the overall rate of violent crime in the UK is about 4 times higher than it is in the United States.  In one recent year, there were 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the UK.  In the United States, there were only 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people during that same year.”
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6. What categories might this detail fit into?
“According to a national study conducted by the CDC, people who have a gun in the home are nine times more likely to die from a homicide in the home than people who do not own a gun.”
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7. What categories might this detail fit into?
“After the city of Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law requiring every home to have a gun, the crime rate dropped by more than 50 percent over the course of the next 23 years.”
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