What is BRAINSTORMING in Writing?

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Brainstorming

    Brainstorming is quickly writing down all the thought that come into you head. When you brainstorm, you do not think about whether an idea is good or bad or whether your writing is correct. You simply write to put your ideas on paper. This process is called brainstorming because it feels like there are a storm in your brain - a storm of IDEAS !!

The Importance of Brainstorming

   Brainstorming is like a storm of ideas in your brain. A good writer brainstorms about a topic by completing these two important steps :

• Thinking about the topic first, then
• writing down words and ideas.

How Brainstorming works

    From the diagram, you can see that the writer wrote many ideas and crossed out some of them. Brainstorming is not a linear or a consecutive process. Writers do not think of one thing, write it down, then think of something else, write it down, and so on. Instead, Brainstorming can be a messy process. Writers move from one idea to another, then back to an earlier idea, then forward again to a new idea, and so on. They cross out words, draw lines to make connections, and change their minds. Brainstorming is cycle with steps that repeat continually.

Source : Great Writing 2 : Great Paragraphs (Third Edition) @Institude of Foreign Language(IFL)