Chapter 11. Essentials_Video_Brainstorming

11.1 Lesson 11 Essentials Video: Brainstorming

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Lesson 11 Essentials Video: Brainstorming

Watch the video below to see how students like you develop a brainstorming strategy.

Transcript

Students in order of appearance: Nicole, Catherine, Billy, Crisosto, Erienne, Hyesu, Angela, Dan, Chase

Exercise: Integrate the video

Question

Write a substantial paragraph or two, with a topic sentence or mini-thesis, through which you respond to the students in this video as you form your own approaches to developing a brainstorming strategy. You might begin by identifying the moments that stand out to you the most. Which student videos seem to make the most sense to you? With whom do you agree? Disagree? What patterns do you find among the student sound bites? Which ideas were the most instructive or helpful to you? What surprised you? How have your own ideas about brainstorming come into focus through the videos?
Chase describes his brainstorming approach by advising, “Just have a purge from what’s in your head onto the paper. Then, after you have it there and it’s a little more concrete, it makes you more comfortable as far as finishing the rest of the paper, because you feel like you have the puzzle pieces, now you’ve just got to put the puzzle together.” No matter what approach you take to brainstorming, you will be identifying the pieces of the puzzle that is your paper. This is a critical early step in launching a successful writing assignment.