Stimulating Thinking Questions for the EVOKE Stage

When you seek to evoke a response in others, you must create and invent. As a species, we have invented an enormous range of ways to do so: writing, choreography, speech, composing music, painting and so on. You need skills with questioning to improve this effort. The lists of questions below suggest different ways of using the five levels of thinking skills to evoke a response.

But the issue of thinking goes beyond learning and using these five levels. The Thinking Home Page addresses other significant issues.

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Questioning

As you work to Evoke a response from another, you need to apply a range of thinking skills. To further stimulate your thinking, click underlined terms to retrieve explanation and examples of question formats involving that term.

Can you brainstorm to get started by listing all the possible ideas that might apply to the problem? Some ideas, images and facts need to be right at our mental fingertips when we compose. What pieces are so important that it would be helpful to rehearse your recall of them?
Can you analyze your composition by sorting your ideas in order of what is most important to say or communicate?
Have you looked in the thesaurus to compare the word you have chosen with other relevant words? What other ideas are related to your current thought? What other comparisons are of interest?
What do you predict will happen if you succeed in evoking the response you are after? What other inferences are needed to complete your idea?
On what criteria do you want your composition judged? How must you change your composition to meet your own evaluation criteria?

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