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INVENTION STRATEGIES

INVENTION STRATEGIES. Explore the subject before you compose the essay Narrow the topic Identify relevant points of interest Connect and group related ideas Select an organizational strategy. NOTING. Brainstorming Scratch Outlines Cubing. Brainstorming / Listing.

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INVENTION STRATEGIES

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  1. INVENTION STRATEGIES • Explore the subject before you compose the essay • Narrow the topic • Identify relevant points of interest • Connect and group related ideas • Select an organizational strategy

  2. NOTING • Brainstorming • Scratch Outlines • Cubing

  3. Brainstorming / Listing • A list of random words and phrases connected to one subject • Drawing connections between related items on the list • Developing an attitude or response to one set of related items

  4. Brainstorming: Example Subject: Shoes • Leather goods • Boots • Designer sports shoes • Muggings for shoes • Shoes slung over telephone wires • Women’s shoes • Louboutin Connections:Topics Designers, expenses, why people are so crazy about shoes. Why do some women (and men) collect shoes. Is a preoccupation with designer shoes an unnatural obsession or is it about collecting wearable art?

  5. Scratch Outline • A “grocery list” of topic subheadings • Drawing an organization or order among the items on the list • Developing each subheading into a complete sentence.

  6. Cubing • Looking at a topic from six different sides (a cube) • Circumspection • Continuing to cube to explore one or more answers to the questions of the first cube.

  7. Cubing • POSSIBLE TOPICS • How does current Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway represent the purpose of Poet Laureates in U.S. culture and history?

  8. IMAGING • Mapping and Branching • Pictographic Brainstorming

  9. Mapping and Branching • Bubbles and spokes • A central subject, expanding into associated topics • Spokes between connected or related topics • Look for how a single topic or theme is “mapped” on the page

  10. Pictographic Brainstorming • Pictionary • Drawing objects, symbols, and scenes that call to mind your ideas about a subject. • No words allowed. • Allow your mind to wander over the images (brainstorm)

  11. Writing • Free-Writing • Outlining(recommended after another invention strategy has already been used) • Revision

  12. Free-Writing • No rules of grammar, punctuation, sentence structure. • No worries about coherency or organization. • Allow whatever you’re thinking to be written down. • If you cannot think of what to write next, write “I can’t think of what to write next.” • Use the process of writing as a mode of thinking. • Turn a random act of writing into a focused topic by reviewing the ideas in it that relate to each other and which evolve into a narrower topic, argument, or attitude. • Develop a topic point out of this.

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