Brainstorming is a very important part in creating a paper. It can help you get your brain thinking and revolving around the subject at hand. It can inspire your point that you are trying to get across and help with starting your paper if you are in a rut and are unable to say what you have in your head. My personal preference while brainstorming is using the “free write” technique. This is when you take time before writing your actual paper and just attempt to write freely. Whatever ideas you have in your head you put it down on paper as it comes to you. It doesn’t matter if you spell things wrong or skip over words. The purpose is to just get all of the ideas down on a piece of paper to get it out into the world and not have it trapped in your head where no one can see it. If you are trying to write something that you know people will see you will hesitate when writing and not write what is in your head. You will write a paper depending on other people’s judgment of your paper. In your free write there is no judgment because no one is seeing it, and you are able to get all the ideas that are stuck in your thoughts down on paper freely. This is a very useful technique that works very well for me and probably many other people as well.
I would like to see your brainstorming efforts for your second paper. I’m glad that you are able to appreciate the free write for the strong writing tool it is.