RAWS Lesson 3: Brainstorming

It is the most popular tool in generating creative and rich ideas; it helps people establish patterns of ideas, develop new ways of thinking, activate background knowledge, and overcome mental block.

Brainstorming

What are the two strategies of brainstorming?

Idea map and idea list

This strategy is especially appropriate for textual people or those who are more comfortable processing words than visuals.

Idea list

It requires you to identify the main topic and then write down all related concepts below it.

Idea list

It is a visual representation of ideas and their connections with one another. It is more structured; thus, it is able to show how one idea subordinates another idea.

Idea map

You put the big idea or question at the center, then add a related idea by writing it down in a circle near the big idea, and drawing a line between the two or show how the ideas are connected.

How to make an idea map

They are visual representations of concepts that help you structure info into organizational patterns. They present essential info and connect these pieces of info into a coherent framework.

Graphic Organizers

They are helpful tools for brainstorming, facilitating, reading, and writing, promoting active learning, and acessing previous knowledge and experiences. Through them, you can focus your attention on key elements and help you integrate new knowledge into your current knowledge.

Graphic Organizers

This is used to compare and contrast ideas and events. This diagram uses two or more overlapping circles to show similar and different attributes.

Venn Diagram

This is used to represent hierarchy, classification, and branching. It is useful in showing relationships of scientific categories, family trees, and even lineages.

Network Tree

AKA semantic map, this is used to investigate and enumerate various aspects of a cental idea, which could be a concept, topic, or theme. This central idea is placed at the center of the map. The main ideas are placed along its diagonal lines, while details of the main ideas are placed on the sides of the diagonals.

Spider Map

This is used to display the nature of the problem and how it can be solved. It usually contains the problem description, its causes and effects, and logical solutions.

Problem-Solution Map

Used to show the chronological order of events though a long bar labeled with dates and specific events. They can be linear comparitive.

Timeline

It shows the events that happened within a period of time, while a…shows two sets of events that happened within the same period of time.

Comparative Timeline

This is used to map events in a story, making it easier to analyze the major parts of the plot. The major events can be placed in the plot diagram are shown and described below: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.

Plot Diagram

Where the characters, setting, and relationships are established.

Exposition

Where the conflict and the characters are developed.

Rising Action

Where major conflicts are confronted

Climax

The events that lead to the closure of the conflicts

Falling Action

The conclusion or closure of the story

Resolution

Where the conflict is known

Inciting moment

This is used to show the logical sequences of events

Series of Events Chain

This is used to better understand the casual relationship of a complex phenomenon. It shows the factors that cause a specific event or problem, as as details of each cause.

Fishbone Map

This is used to describe how a series of events interact to produce a set of resuls repeatedly. Some examples of events that require a cycle are the water cycle, metamorphosis, and the poverty cylce.

Cycle

This is used to map out arguments and evidence that prove a viewpint. This map is especially useful when processing persuasive or argumentative texts.

Persuasion Map