What is brainstorming?When you brainstorm, you write words or phrases as you can think of about a topic. You don’t have to write complete sentences when brainstorming.

Why brainstorming?Brainstorming helps you to have as many

ideas as possible.You can take the most relevant ideas and

organize them into a paragraph or an article.After brainstorming, you cannot say, “What

should I write?”It helps you in solving problems.

Breaking something down into smaller partsFor example, while brainstorming about

“Things I like to do”, imagine you wrote down “drawing pictures”. You can break this idea further in this way:

Drawing picture - of airplanes - of cars- of people - of animals

Brainstorming – topics and subtopicsThings I like to do

Travelling-Beach-Mountains-Interesting citiesUsing my computer-Making greeting cards-Using the internetSending e-mailShopping-Buying computer software

-- computer games-- graphics

Writing processChoose a topicBrainstormingMain ideaTopic SentenceSupporting sentencesParagraph formatOrganizing ideas logicallyDeveloping an article with an introductory

paragraph, paragraphs for subtopics and the concluding paragraph