Gathering Ideas
After conducting research, you will need to generate ideas and organize the collected data. Simple organizational techniques will help provide structure and direction as you prepare to compose.
Generating ideas often includes brainstorming or brain-writing. These techniques can be an effective way to produce the best ideas if they are done correctly.
Read the scenario, and then identify how the brainstorming or brain-writing process could be improved.
Jeanne, a girls' outdoor adventure leader, created a meeting agenda to address a problem her troop had. Their cookie fundraiser was in trouble: The mint chocolate chip cookies were not selling. Jeanne wanted the girls to come up with new cookie ideas and innovative ways to sell them.
The group began the session by yelling out cookie ideas ranging from real mud pies to snickerdoodles in the shape of a bear. It was an amazing session; everyone participated. The group came up with 50 new cookie ideas in less than 12 minutes, but they could remember only a few of them at the end of the meeting.
To improve the group's brainstorming, Jeanne should .
A. use flip-charts and classify ideas
B. create an agenda
C. encourage out-of-the-box thinking
Choose whether the following situation represents crowdsourcing, crowd-storming, or crowdfunding. You own a local coffeeshop. Recently, you noticed that customers were doodling on your white paper cups. Intrigued, you set up a contest, and asked your customers to submit their best doodles to you. You chose your favorite doodle, and put it on a reusable cup. This is an example of:
A. Crowd-storming
B. Crowdsourcing
C. Crowdfunding