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ACTIVITY 1
Instructions: Provide comprehensive and concise explanation for the following
questions. Give your reference for your answers. (Book Title, Author, Year of
publication)
Physical barriers are conditions in the environment that affect your state
at the time of writing. For example, the presence of loud noise and dim light in a
room certainly affect your concentration and focus.
Cognitive barriers refer to your knowledge level, perceptions towards the
writing task, decoding and encoding skills, and critical thinking abilities that you
exhibit in the writing task. This becomes an obstacle since the process of
concretizing abstract concepts in your schema involves an intricate process. For
example, the topic on melancholy is too abstract. Writers may find it quite scary to
write about.
b. Questioning
Generate ideas and details by asking questions related to the topic
Questions include information questions like: why, when, where, who,
and how
Ask as many questions as you can
You can try directed questioning if you already have a topic yet you dont
know how to start with it. This will help you delimit your ideas. The following
questions may prove helpful: How can I describe the topic? How can I define
the topic? How does the topic resemble or differ from other topics? How does
the topic work? How does the topic affect other things? Can I argue for or
against the topic? Why does this topic interest me? What ideas are generally
associated with the topic?
c. Branching
Emphasize the connections between ideas
Begin by writing your topic on the left side of the paper
Write your ideas that are related to your topic
Connect them to the topic with a line
Sub-topics will bring to mind more related thoughts and details
Write these thoughts and details on the right side, letting the list branch
out across the paper.
d. Idea Mapping
Start with a wide-open activity that combines words and images such as
doodles, symbols, sketches, icons, and so forth
Write or draw one idea after another as your mind ranges freely from
word image and back again
Write your ideas anywhere on the pages
Underline and encircle ideas and images for emphasis.
Idea mapping is also known as diagramming or clustering which helps
generate ideas and details about the topic. You can make use of lines, boxes,
and circles to show the relationship between the ideas and the details that you
are trying to come up.
e. Keeping a journal
This is your idea book
Keep this as a separate notebook
Keep a record of ideas that interest you
Include or write about the topic you want to explore.
You can create ideas by keeping a writing journal. You have to
remember that this is not a diary. This may be as formal or informal as you
wish. The emphasis of your entry is less on recording but more on reflecting
about what you do or see, hear or read, learn or believe. This is a record of
your thoughts which shou1d be written as if you were addressing yourself or a
very close friend. You have to get things do on your paper as you think of them.
You have to finish first your entry before rereading it. The collected ideas can
be a basis for topics for your future writing prompts.
f. Clustering
This is done by starting a cluster with a nucleus word related to the
writing topic or assignment. Ideas are clustered or recorded around the nucleus
word, each idea is circled, and a line is drawn to connect it to the closest related
idea.
g. Listing
Free listing of ideas as they come to mind is another technique for
finding a writing subject. This starts with an idea or a keyword related to the
assignment and simply begins with listing words. Brainstorming with a group is
an effective way to search for writing ideas.
h. Imaginary Dialogue
By creating an imaginary dialogue with someone else or between two
strangers, you can easily find an idea for a writing assignment.
i. Sentence Completion
You can complete an open-ended sentence in as many ways as you
can, but you have to try to word this sentence so that it leads to a subject you
can use for a particular writing assignment.