Bouncing Your Brain

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LESSON 3 - BRAINSTORMING


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Writing Process

Descriptive

Essay Narrative Essay

ExemplificationEssay Personal Essay

Common

WritingMistakes


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Writers Prompt:

Describe your perfect day. What are you doing?

What are you seeing?

Where are you? What do you smell? What do you see? What are you feeling?

Write a paragraphdescribing your perfect day.


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Assignments

Read in GW Wuthering

Heights by Emily BrontePage 31

Page 35, do questionsMeaning and Idea #3;Language, Form, Structure

#2 Read LBH Chapter 2 and

do Ex. 2.6, Page 31


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Assignment Review

E.B. White Once More to

the Lake Meaning and Idea - #4

Language, Form, Structure - #3, #4

Read Little Brown Handbook(LBH)Chapter One

Narrow the subject

The Civil War

Teenage Drinking

The History of the Cell Phone

Environmentalism


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E. B. White

New Yorkermagazine essayist

Language lover

Charlottes Web, Stuart Little

The Elements of Style


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To Begin


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And, Whynot?

"Some men seethings as they are

and say 'Why?'I dream things that

never were andsay, 'Why not?'"George Bernard Shaw


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Welcomewhimsy.

Be foolish.


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Dream.


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Have a light bulb

moment.


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Look at things differently.


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Look at both sides of the

picture.


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Waysto Brain Bounce

Freewriting

Brainstorming

Ask critical questions

Keep a journal

Mindmapping

Daydreaming


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FREEWRITING


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Freewriting

Don't stop! Dont edit!

Keep your fingers typing or your

pen moving for your time limit

Dont try to sort good and

bad ideas.

Dont worry about spelling and

grammar.


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Exercise

Freewrite for 10 minutes on

the word which will

appear on the next slide. Just go for it.

Dont hold back


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blue


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BRAINSTORMING


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Brainstorming

Brainstorming means thinking

of as many ideas as possible in a

short amountof time. Write down your ideas so that

you dont forget them.

Every idea is a good idea


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Brainstorming

Write down everything that

comes to your mind; dont worry

about sorting out good andbad ideas.

Dont worry about spelling or

grammar


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Brainstorming

No stopping, no editing (similar

to freewriting)

Note key words or short phrasesin list form under your subject

(instead of free-flowing

paragraph)


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Exampleof

BrainstormingTopic: What would I do with one million dollars?

Travel--Europe, Asia, S. America

Buy a house or two

Share--donate to charities

Get an expensive car

Invest/save and let the interest grow


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Exercise

For next few minutes, get

into groups of two, three,

or four and brainstorm thesubject presented on thenext slide.


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Howwouldyousolvethecurrenteconomic

crisis?


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MINDMAPPING


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Mindmapping

Start with a central word.

As related concepts pop in your

head, indicate them as branches,arrows, bubbles, etc.

You may have an aha!

moment.


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New YorkThe Yankees

Far Away

Vacation?

Law and Order

Movies

911

Cost of Food

Broadway

Hilary

Clinton

Gang warfarePricey

Big Apple

World Series?

Delis

Times

Square


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JOURNAL WRITING


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Keep a Journal

JournalWriting

Why is this important to me?

How does it relate to me?

How do I feel about it? Do I feel good/bad/indifferent

about it? Why?


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JournalWriting

How does this affect me

daily?

How might my connection tothis change in the future?

How did I feel about this in the

past?


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ASK CRITICAL QUESTIONS


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Sleepwalking

Ask

Dictionary definition of _____?

How is the _____ different from

other things?

What are some concrete

examples of the _____?


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COMPARE AND CONTRAST


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Sleepwalking

Compare/Contrast

What is _____ similar to?

What is _____ different from?

Is _____ most unlike (like) what?


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OUTLINING


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Outlining

Outlining is a more organized form of pre-

writing than the others we discussed.

It can be used after you have generated ideasthrough brainstorming, free writing, or other

pre-writing techniques.

It works well for structured types of writingsuch as essays.


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Example OutlineI. Introduction: Eating sushi has its

advantages and disadvantages

II. Advantages

a) easy to cook none requiredb) fun to do with friends and family

III. Disadvantages

a) hard to find sushi restaurantsb) sushi is expensive


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CHARTING


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Charting

Sometimes you will want to

organize your ideas for writing in

a chart. Charting works very well for

comparison/ contrast writing or

examining advantages anddisadvantages.


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Act

silly

.


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Think outside the lines.


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Changeyour focus

Whe

n is a pe

ncil not a pe

ncil?


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Howmanylegsdoesthe

elephanthave?


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Monroeor Einstein?


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Younglady,oldman

orman?


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BeforeanartistnamedEricpaintsthesideof this

building


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Andafter.


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Before:theblankhallwaysof alarge

manufacturer


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Hard work pays off in the future.Laziness pays off now.Stephen Wright


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I intend to live forever

so far, so good.Stephen WrightStephen Wright


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What happens if you get

scared half to death twice?Stephen WrightStephen Wright


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I used to have an open mind

but my brains kept fallingout. Stephen WrightStephen Wright


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Take a trip in your

mind


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