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

• 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.