Monday, August 29, 2011

8/29/2011

Today we discussed brainstorming in it's two basic forms: (1) asking and answering questions and (2) listing. Asking the 6 basic questions, who? what? when? where? why? and how? is an easy way to get started. Listing helps my simply listing words and phrases that relate to your subject. Clustering is a web-like way of brainstorming by using circles to relate to your main subject. Our activity for today was to answer the 6 basic questions about our freewriting topic from last class and to practice clustering.

4 comments:

  1. I agree about what you said about clustering. It is a web-like way of brainstorming. It is like a spiderweb of ideas.

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  2. I use these methods all the time and completely agree with you. It makes for great practice to write organized and easy essays.

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  3. I agree. i actually started using these techniques.

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