Classification
-Classify= make sense of the world by arranging things into manageable groups
-To help people find things
-Subject of classification always a number of things
-Job to sort out things into groups or classes based on similarities and differences
-Must have some sort of purpose: mainly to organize
-You can classify a subject according to many principles
-Simplest type binary: sorting things our into 1) those w certain distinguishing feature 2) those without it
-Most useful when your subject is easily divisible into positive and negative groups
-Sometimes, subcategories are needed
-Will come into use when a complex subject is to be explained
-The principle for sorting should be revealed in the thesis
-Categories shouldn’t overlap
-Include all essential categories
-Some form of an outline helps