Brainstorming Strategies Quiz: Test Your Creative Thinking

Study Notes

Sentence Structure

A full sentence has three essential components: a subject, a verb, and a predicate.
Each sentence in a sentence outline is the first sentence of a paragraph, conveying exactly what the writer will discuss.

Rhetorical Modes

Narration: The process of telling a story or recounting events through written or spoken language.
Description: Used to tell readers about the physical characteristics of a person, place, or thing, appealing to the senses (smell, taste, hear, sight, and touch) through the reader's imagination.
Objective: Statements that present facts and evidence, such as "It's raining."
Subjective: Personal opinions or feelings, such as "I love rainy days."
Figurative: Language that goes beyond literal meaning, such as "She's a ray of sunshine."
Definition: A statement that clarifies the meaning of a word, phrase, concept, or term, highlighting the main traits or characteristics that distinguish it from other comparable items.

Modes of Discourse

Exemplification: Using specific examples to portray a general point or concept.
Classification: The systematic arrangement of concepts or things into categories based on shared characteristics or properties.
Comparison & Contrast: Identifying shared characteristics to analyze, explain, or persuade by demonstrating the relationships between things.
Cause & Effect: The relationship between two events where one event (the cause) makes another event happen (the effect).
Problem & Solution: Dividing information into two main sections: one that describes a problem, and one that describes a solution.
Persuasion: The act of influencing or convincing someone to adopt a particular belief, attitude, or behavior.

Organization and Coherence

Organization: The structure and ordering of a task, presenting information in a logical sequence with clear headings and subheadings.
Coherence: The clarity and consistency of ideas within a task, maintaining a clear focus on the topic or main idea throughout.
Cohesion: Achieved through the use of cohesive devices such as transition words, pronouns, and repeated key terms, tying the task together and making it feel unified and interconnected.

Brainstorming Strategies

Brainstorming: Collaborating with others to explore topics, develop ideas, and find solutions to problems.
Cubing: Exploring a topic from multiple perspectives or angles (describe, compare and contrast, associate, analyze, apply, argue for/against).
Free Writing: Writing down whatever comes to mind.
Listing: Listing down topics and making sub-lists of things you could write about each topic.
Mapping: Writing down ideas and making connections by associating similar ideas (webbing or clustering).
Researching: Getting existing knowledge, data, and information to generate new ideas.
Graphic Organizers: Visual thinking tools that make pictures of your thoughts, demonstrating relationships between facts, concepts, or ideas, and guiding your thinking.
Venn Diagram: Showing how different things or ideas can overlap to demonstrate a compare/contrast relationship.
Concept Maps: Diagrams that depict suggested relationships between concepts.
Mind Maps: Diagrams used to visually organize information into a hierarchy, showing relationships among pieces of the whole.
Flowcharts: Graphic organizers that show how steps in a process fit together.
Topic Outline: Arranges ideas hierarchically (showing which are main and which are sub-points) in the sequence you want, and shows what you will discuss.
Sentence Outline: A sentence outline lists full sentences.

Description

Test your knowledge of effective brainstorming strategies, including cubing, free writing, listing, and mapping. Learn how to explore topics, develop ideas, and find solutions to problems with these 5 strategies.