[vet-mm] vet-mm Digest, Vol 132, Issue 22 - Word Salad

Wed Nov 2 16:20:27 AEDT 2016

Word Salad - yes was scratching my head some time ago.

A "Wordle" is a visual representation of a Word Salad. An apparent jumble of
words - the more common being larger, the less common or more obscure are
smaller.

Benefit - well you would not be looking for what everyone has thought of,
you are looking for the obscure. These are "hiding" in the Wordle (or other
type of word cloud).

Just my thinking about it. Doesn't mean I am right.

Regards

Martin Brabon
Retired.

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   1. Re: creative thinking (Bloom, Claire R)

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Good one!! And I agree, why would UoC list this obscure technique and not
some of the others mentioned on this site?
It's all a word salad to me!
Claire

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My students found this:
http://workingcreativity.com/activities/wordsalad.html

... but personally, I think it's not well known enough to have been included
on the list in the competency.

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Subject: [vet-mm] creative thinking

I'll be honest, I've never found an explanation of "word salad" as a
creative thinking technique, it seems to refer to an incomprehensible form
speech used by those with certain mental disabilities. This article in
yesterday's Age confirms what I have found.

Fairfax football writer Rohan Connolly is a considerable character and not
one to suffer fools gladly. Recently, he tweeted: "I'll say it again! The
real cultural war looming in this country isn't so much about left v right
as intelligence v rank f---ing stupidity." A few days earlier, he tweeted
after reading the transcript of a Trump speech, describing it as a "word
salad...Not only is there no coherent policy, it's barely even coherent
English".
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/how-the-us-election-turned-into-catch-22-20
161027-gscoie.html

Google "Trump word salad", and lots of commentators are describing his
incoherence as a word salad. Most definitely not a technique likely to yield
a creative solution.
Has anyone used this technique in a critical and creative thinking exercise?
Or how did teachers define this "creative thinking technique"?

Not long now...

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