To begin:. Home Courses Library Donate. Previous menu Toggle navigation. Why is academic integrity important? What is academic integrity? How can I study with integrity? Summary and diagnosis 5. Formulation 5. Formulation 6. Management 6. Skip to content Skip to navigation. In this section: About brainstorming Asking questions Freewriting Mind mapping.
Brainstorming Brainstorming is a way of generating ideas and organising your thinking on a topic. How to brainstorm There are many different ways of brainstorming an assignment. Back to top. Asking questions Asking questions about your assignment is a useful way of breaking down the topic into its basic elements so that you can better understand it. Many researchers begin with the Five Ws and One H, a series of basic questions that are useful for gathering information about an event or issue: What happened?
Who was involved? When did it take place? Where did it take place? Why did it happen? How did it happen? Example Imagine that you have been asked to write an essay on the following topic:. Creating mind maps helps put together information in a way that reveals relationships with new information.
You start with the basic problem as the center, and then generate ideas to obtain at a large number of different possible solutions. You can draw lines from the ideas to other possible solutions related to your idea. Since it is a system that taps into the way the brain naturally functions, you find that mind mapping puts you in touch with your true creative potential, and that you can generate and organize ideas at a very fast pace.
Using color, symbols, and images also helps to stimulate imagination. Critical thinking. The why questions are very important in this process. The more you understand about the topic of the brainstorm the more you can ask about it. By asking "Why" for example: Why is it done that way? Why is that person in charge of the process?
Why are these its components? You can gain an understanding of the constraints and motivations that existing within that topic. Put yourself in multiple roles or perspectives. When you are asking questions, put yourself in a different role. What would a person in that role say?
How would they feel about this? How would they view the problem? Use a white board or large piece of paper to write everything down. Making lists and drawing pictures or diagrams are the main outcomes of a brainstorming session. The goal is to get all of the ideas out of our heads and into some tangible form. Once you have listed or drawn out the ideas then you can begin to combine and see relations between things.
What's the difference between a Concept Map and a Mind Map? Concept Map.
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