What is "Cubing?"
What is "Cubing?"
Cubing is a brainstorming strategy for exploring the various angles and sides of a topic. It is particularly useful for rhetorical topics, such as immigration, climate change, etc.
Cubing: A 6-Sided Approach
Cubing: A 6-Sided Approach
Describe it.
Compare it.
Associate it.
Analyze it.
Apply it.
Argue for and against it.
You can complete it as a literal cube (like this) if you'd like, but simply sectioning off a document with these categories works well. One of the best benefits from this process is that completing a 'Cube' brainstorm also functions as an outline for a paper or topic.
Moreover, you can create a 'Cube' for each topic, novel, category if you have a more sprawling paper or project.