Question

What are the advantages of brainwriting over brainstorming?
1. Ideas are less apt to be interrupted.
2. Some people feel more at ease writing their ideas down.
3. Each person gets a turn to speak up.
4. Ideas are rapidly documented.
5. People get to self-censor their ideas.

Answer 1

Answers:
1. True — because people write silently, ideas aren’t cut off by others talking.
2. True — some people prefer writing and feel less inhibited than speaking.
3. False (misleading) — brainwriting ensures everyone contributes ideas, but it does so by writing rather than giving each person a spoken “turn.”
4. True — ideas are recorded as they’re produced, so they’re documented quickly.
5. False — one goal of brainwriting is to reduce social pressure and evaluation apprehension (not to encourage self‑censoring).