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4.14 Discussion: Generating Ideas

The first step in the writing process is generating ideas for your topic. Amy used a cluster diagram and took some notes to come up with her narrowed topic. In this discussion, you will discuss how you will go about generating topic ideas.

Let's read Dakota's post.

I am not much for cluster diagrams, because they don't help me come up with ideas. I prefer brainstorming, where I take a few minutes, set the timer, and just write ideas until the timer goes off. Being free to jot down any and all ideas really gets my creativity flowing. I will use the story map, though. I think that is a really good idea for planning the details in my story.

Create one post that answers the following prompt.

How will you generate ideas for a topic? What resources and tools can you use?

Create two posts that

Reply to your peer's posts. Offer additional suggestions to your peers or comment on how their post has helped you generate ideas.

Use the discussion rubric to find out how you will be graded.