Writing Center: Brainstorming Your Paper

ACTIVITY

By looking at the photo below take 30 seconds to write down as many words as possible that come to mind.

At the brainstorming stage try to visualize your theme or topic. 

This will help you gather more keywords. 

The more keywords you have, the easier it will be to gather information for your paper.

Bubble Maps are a great way to organize your ideas.

Click HERE To Print Out Bubble Maps

After brainstorming try to put your thoughts into a more linear form by using an outline worksheet.

Print one here.

To produce the best writing assignment, we need to be sure we are using Keywords that highlight the main idea of our topic.

After printing a bubble map, fill in your map with any words you can think of that are associated with your topic. This will especially help during your research stage when you need to search for supporting resources on your topic.

Example Topic: Sugar

Keywords:

- Candy

-Carbs

-Diabetes

-Donuts 

-Cake

-Chocolate