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Successful Learning Prompts: Generating Ideas

You will hear from time to time that people believe they suffer from writer's block. This can just as easily apply to a student trying to write an essay. They feel they have run out of ideas. Whether this is true or not is open to debate. It might be the writer is lazy or can’t be bothered to put in the hard yards.

But whatever the facts, there can be a number of reasons for this lack of ideas. It could be because they don't like the topic, because they have no knowledge of the topic or because the topic is quite rare and has hard-to-find research material.

But it doesn't matter why you are having trouble generating ideas for your essay. The issue is to find ways so you can generate ideas for your essay. There are some simple and practical steps you can take which are successful learning prompts.

  • read as widely as possible
  • brainstorming
  • ask relevant people

There will be many books and newspaper articles, some or most of which will be online, with information relevant to the topic of your essay. By reading as widely as possible you can generate new ideas. It's a bit like gold prospecting. You have to put in the effort. You have to go looking in the right places and take the time to see what's available.

Brainstorming is a simple activity. It's a matter of letting go, of not allowing anything to restrict your thinking and writing. On a piece of paper you write the topic of your essay. Then, without pausing to think if something is relevant or not, you write as many words as quickly as possible. Do not stop to think if what you are writing is relevant. Just write it. Don't worry about spelling or punctuation. After five or even ten minutes of this brainstorming, you will have many ideas some of which will be ideal for your essay.

Finally there are people who know a lot about the topic of your essay. It could be fellow students or it could be members of the faculty at your college. It could even be people who are experts in the area of knowledge about which you are going to write. Find these people. Ask them questions about what inspired them to write what they did. This is another great way to generate ideas.

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