Brainstorming Strategies

7/29/2019 Brainstorming Strategies

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GETTING STARTED:BRAINSTORMING STRATEGIES


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Purposes of Brainstorming

Get ideas on the page

Explore topicsFind a topic that interests you

Think through a topicMake a subject matter relevant to youGet the bad ideas out


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Common Brainstorming Strategies

FreewritingColumnsClustering

Questioning (who,what, when, where, whyand how)

ListingInvisible writing(computer screen off)

topic

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Types of Writing Assignments

BROAD

You pick a subject thatfits the assignmentguidelinesPurpose is usuallypredetermined

Audience is usuallyunfamiliar with thetopic

PARTICULAR

You pick a specifictopic within theassigned subjectPurpose is usually toinform or persuade

Audience hasbackgroundknowledge on subject


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BRAINSTORMING FOR BROAD TOPICS

STRATEGY

ObservationEX: Write a compare/contrast essay.

TRY IT:

Think of a classroomyou have this semesterand describe it. Then,

describe thisclassroom.How are the

classrooms similar?How are theydifferent?


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Location Appearance Technology

Your Classroom

This Classroom

1. Determine categories2. Chart your findings to organize yourinformation


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STRATEGY

Ask questionsEX: Write anargumentativeresearch paper.

Topic must have two

sidesMust be able to findevidence for both sides

_____Pro Con___


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TRY IT:

What topics do youwant to know moreabout?Where can you findinformation on these

topics?

Topics that interest me

Who?What?

When?Where?Why?How?


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STRATEGY

Go to an event(concert, museum, play,presentation)

EX: Write a descriptive

narrative essay.Use senses to create animage for your reader.

TRY IT:

Describe this workshopor a performanceyouve seen recently.

SightsSounds

SmellsTasteFeel


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BRAINSTORMING FOR PARTICULAR TOPICS

STRATEGY

Read biographies aboutpeople who have made adifference EX: Explore a branch of the

US Government. Why is itimportant to the governanceof our Country? Check-outand read the biographiesThurgood Marshall: AmericanRevolutionary or A Justice ForAll: William A. Brennan, Jr.and the Decisions That Transformed America.

Justice William A. Brennan


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TRY IT:By the time he retired in July 1990,Brennan had ruled in 1,360 opinions,surpassing all but one justice in the courtshistory. His vital cases included New YorkTimes v. Sullivan , which established theactual malice standard of which pressreports could be considered to bedefamation and libel (allowing free

reporting of civil rights campaigns in thesouthern U.S.), and Furman v. Georgia ,which ruled application of the deathpenalty required consistency (resulting inthe suspension of the death penalty from1973 to 1976).

Emphasis would be: _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________


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Strategy

Read a poem aboutyour subject

EX: Write a paperdescribing life in aSouthern mill village.

Check out Eureka Mill. Author Ron Rash


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Try it:Mill houses lined both sides of every roadlike boxcars on a track. They were so

close a man could spit off of his own frontporch, hit four houses if he had the wind.Sometimes at night if I was feeling low, Idstuff my ears with cotton. Then Id stareup at that picture like it was a window,and I was back home listening to the

farm. But what was done was done.Before too long the weave room jarredthe hearing from my ears, and I got usedto living with a crowd. Before too long Itook the picture of the barn down.Would wish to discover informationabout:

_________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________


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Strategy

Read a generalinterest article

EX: Describe amanagement theoryconceptualized in the

last ten years. FindHuman PotentialUntangled


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Try It:Neither too lockstep nor too loose, suchan approach might be called the value

model of development because its goalis to get the best value each person hasto offer. It combines methodical key stepspeople can follow to advance in theircareers, with learning organizationconcepts that respect individual

differences. One of the first steps indeveloping each persons full potential isknowing why people dont perform andwhat to do about it.How might the theory be described:

_________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________


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Strategy

Watch a documentaryEx: Choose aninternational food which

immigrated to a specificregion within the US anddetail the history andcomposition of the dish.- Find International FoodFestival 2008


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Try It:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkwclqDa7s4What food and/or regionpiqued your interest?

What did you initiallylearn? _____________________ _____________________

_____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________
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Try ItThere have been some medical

schools in which somewherealong the assembly line, a facultymember has informed thestudents, not so much by what hesaid but by what he did, that

there is an intimate relationbetween curing andcaring. Ashley MontaguPossible opinions:

_____________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________
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Strategy

Muse over a famousimage

EX: Write an expositoryessay regarding thesignificance of a major

Revolutionary WarBattle.


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Try It:George Washington Crossing

the DelawareWhat stands out in your mindabout the painting, makingthe Battle of Trenton one you

will enjoy writing about? ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________

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