ECPI Creating Grouping Labelling and Placing your Shopping List in Order Questions

Instructions

Step 1: Begin by making a “shopping list”.  Use a word or two to describe each point that is covered in the scenario until you have a list of all the ideas covered. (Upscale apartment, assault call, bloody nose, red marks, etc.). 

NOTE 1: Names, addresses, and other such facts should be written out completely.

NOTE 2: The facts that you gathered and are now making a list out of will not be in the order that you will use them in your report.

NOTE 3: By making your shopping list, you have started to put the information from your notes into a manageable form.

Step 2: Now that you have created your shopping list, the next step will be to group by similar ideas, facts, or information that logically fits together.

Note: Statements made by a particular person should almost always be placed in a group by themselves.

NOTE 2: Give yourself plenty of room in which to work. Using a pencil and eraser can make the task easier, but do not worry about neatness.

NOTE 3: This is for your use only in planning your report.

Step 3: Your next task is to name or label each of the groups that you have established. (At a minimum, you should have the following labels: Responding officers; victim’s information, suspect’s information, apartment crime scene).

NOTE: Use from one to five words to describe the major topic of the group

Step 4: You are now ready for the final phase of the planning process: placing the labeled groups in a logical order.

NOTE 1: The groups should be put in an order that makes the most sense, assists your reader in understanding the report, or puts emphasis on the message that you are trying to impart.

NOTE 2: Often, the groups are arranged in chronological order. Keep in mind that every report needs three things: an introduction, a body of information, and a conclusion (Much like that of a research paper). 

NOTE 3: The body of your report comes from your labeled groups.

Once all the steps are completed, students will submit a Word document outlining their labeled shopping lists grouped together in a logical flow.