The excerpt from the Write’s Toolbox explains how writing
can be used in a multitude of ways. Writing is a useful skill because it can be
used to help formulate ideas, compose papers, as well as draft stronger public
writing materials. Notes, free writing, sketches, and mind mapping can be used
to help formulate ideas. These types of writings are the process that
encourages lively thinking, which, in the end, gives way to stronger works,
anywhere from proposals and project briefs to blogs and comments. There are
different types of diagrams one can use to organize their information, such as
mind maps. Mind maps are for visual thinkers that allow them to organize data
or information in a nonlinear way. Maps are a good tool to use for visuals in
communicating an idea, like using photos or drawings. To analyze the mind map,
look for certain patterns and relationships that have emerged as well as new
concepts that need to be mapped. Concept mapping is similar to mind maps but
utilize words to show systematically how things fit together. Free writing
allows quick thinking to just jot down thoughts on paper. Brain writing is the
same as brainstorming but on paper and usually in a group, like brainstorming
is. Just as well, the final useful type of process writing is called word
lists. Lists can create a flow of ideas that will stimulate an imaginative and
long steak of words that have to do with your selected word. The longer the
list, the more words you have, even if they are opposites and have little to do
with your actual word, they will still be helpful in your ideas process.
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