ROCKY MOUNTAIN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, cilt.44, sa.5, ss.1621-1630, 2014 (SCI-Expanded)
Due to Alexander, every closed oriented 3-manifold has an open book decomposition. In this note, we review two proofs of this theorem, one which constructs a planar open book decomposition. We then present an algorithmic way for determining the monodromy of this planar open book decomposition.