While I can see why Luker emphasizes this exercise
as a way to organize ideas before beginning secondary literature research, I
personally found the activity to be a bit more of a nuisance than useful. I prefer writing lists when brainstorming
ideas and actually had to do that before completing my daisy. I then made a daisy twice (the picture above
being my second attempt) and still couldn’t get my ideas perfectly into a
pretty flower. I appreciate this
activity for showing a flow to ideas and how they overlap with one another,
however, I personally would not make a daisy diagram again. Writing words in a circular shape works best
for me, and then I don’t have to count to make sure I have enough petals for all
my words. Also, I don’t have to make a
whole new diagram if I want to add/remove a word like I would have to with a daisy diagram. Still, this exercise was
a good way for me to brainstorm subject terms I can use when finding articles
so, it that sense, it was helpful.
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