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Using 6-3-5 Brainwriting in helping Senior High School students doing brainstorming in writing process: The example of the tik tok app

1. Step 1/Collecting information: The teacher shares a video abou tik tok app with her students.  Then asked them to collect the ideas about tik tok app that the students get while watching the video in observing and questioning section. Based on the video, the students can imagine and think about why tik tok app should be blocked by the government. 6-3-5 Brainwriting is going to use to help the students doing brainstorming to generate ideas.
   • The teacher tells the students the rules of doing 6-3-5 Brainwriting. The students are not allowed to talk while writing the ideas. The ideas can be a phrase. It is better for the students to write the ideas short enough because the time is limit.
   • The teacher asks the students to sit in a group of six.
   • Then, the teacher gives the students a form of 6-3-5 Brainwriting to write the ideas. Before starting, the teacher asks the students to write the topic and name on top of the form.
   • After that, the teacher gives 5 minutes for the students to think and write the ideas.  Each student writes 3 ideas. The example of ideas:
     • Tik tok has a bad impact on children.
     • Many tik tok videos are not good to watch.
     • There are no advantages of tik tok.
   • After the 5 minutes done, each group has 18 ideas.
2. Step 2/Associating: In this section, the students evaluate the information/ideas that have been collected in the previous section. The students in groups decide the more related, and reasonable ideas about the topic.
   • All the members tell the group the ideas they have written and explained why they think the ideas are appropriate to the topic. For example:
     There are three ideas from a student:
     • Tik tok has a bad impact.
     • Many tik tok videos are not good to watch.
     • There are no advantages of tik tok.
     Then, the students give the opinion about the ideas. The first idea is tik tok has a bad impact on children. The student has to explain to others. For example, the student says that tik tok app has a bad impact because the content is negative.
   • While their friend telling the ideas and the reason, others should take a note to help them in deciding the best ideas to choose from.
   • After that, the group discusses which idea is the best among the three ideas of their friends. At last, each member of the group just has one best idea.
   • Finally, each group has 6 ideas.
3. Step 3/Communicating: In this last section, the students tell the class the result of their
   group discussion.
   • Each group reports the result of the group discussion. The students have to tell the ideas and the reason why the ideas are chosen.
   • The same ideas among the groups are not allowed. If one group has same ideas with others, the students may cheat and copy their friends writing. The group who present earlier is allowed to have the idea, so others group should eliminate the same ideas.
   • At last, each group at least has 3 ideas/arguments to write. This is the end of 6-3-5 Brainwriting process. The students will write the text at home as their homework. Then, it will check by the teacher in the next meeting.

Source: http://ejournal.unp.ac.id/index.php/jelt/article/view/101115
Case Study: Using 6-3-5 Brainwriting in helping Senior High School students doing brainstorming in writing process