Using the software on the ‘optimalsort.com’ Web site, you will be given a list of items to use for the card sort and then perform an online card sort with 5 participants (from outside of the course). This assignment will be a combination of both learning the software tool and also understanding how to perform and analyze data from a card sort. So the homework will be two parts:
Create an account with optimalsort.com and perform a card sort based on the content provided.
After completing the card sort, submit a 1-2-page paper reflecting on the process and card sorting exercise. The paper should include a description of the results of your card sort – were there definitive themes that you could uncover from the card sort or not? Discuss your impressions of the entire process and how you think this could (or could not) help you as a writer with organizing information. What were the limitations of this method? Lastly, include a link to the results on the Web site.