FOCUSED FREE WRITING

Topic Generating Techniques

BRAINSTORMING

Brainstorming - is a group or individual creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its member(s). The term was popularized by Alex Faickney Osborn in the 1953 book Applied Imagination. Osborn claimed that brainstorming was more effective that individuals working alone in generating ideas, although more recent research has questioned this conclusion. Today, the term is used as a catch all for all group idealization sessions.

                                                                           

CLUSTERING

Clustering - clustering can refer to the following:

In demographics:

     - clustering (demographics) the gathering of various based on factors such as ethnicity economics or religion.

In graph theory:

     - The formation of clusters of linked nodes in a network, measured by the clustering coefficient.

In statistics and data mining:

     - a result of cluster analysis.

     - an algorithm for cluster analysis, a method for statistical analysis.
In computing:
     - cluster (computing), the technique of linking many computers together to act like a single computer.
     - data cluster, an allocation of contiguous storage in databases and life systems
     - in hash tables, mapping of keys to nearby slots.

FREEWRITING

Freewriting - is a prewriting technique in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time without regard to spell, grammar, or topic. It produces raw, often unusable material, but helps writers overcome blocks of apathy and self-criticism. It is used mainly by prose writers and writing teachers. Some writers use the technique to collect initial thoughts and ideas on a topic, often as a preliminary to formal writing. Free writing is not the same as automatic writing.
Unlike brainstorming where ideas are simply listed, in freewriting one writes sentences to form a paragraph about whatever comes to mind.

REBUS WRITING

Rebus Writing - a rebus is an allusional device that users pictures to represent words or parts of words. It was a favourite form of heradic expression used in the Middle Ages to denote surnames.
For example, in its basic form, three salmon (fish) are used to denote the name "Salmon". A more sophisticated examples was the rebus of Bishop Walter Lyhart of Norwich, consisting of a stag (or hart) lying down in a conventional representation of water.
The composition alludes to the name, profession or personal characteristics of the bearer, and speaks to the beholder Non verbis, sed rebus, which Latin expression signifies "not by words but by things".

PICTOGRAM

Pictogram - a pictogram, also called a pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto, and also an icon, is an ideogram that conveys its remaining through its pictorial resemblance to physical object. Pictograms are often used in writing and graphic systems in which the characters are to a considerable extent pictorial in appearance.

Pictography is a form of writing which users representational, pictorial drawings, similarly to cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which also uses drawings as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes. In certain modern use, pictograms participate to a formal language (e.g. Hazards pictograms).