My favourite brainstorming way

Last Friday we learnt how to get ready to write. Firstly, we chose some topics from a list and narrowed them into several more specific topics, trying to make them not too limited or general. Then we gathered some ideas by using three types of brainstorming: making a list, freewriting and mapping.

   · Making a list consists on writing ideas in the form of words or phrases that are linked to the topic.

  · By freewriting, we wrote about the topic almost without thinking: just whatever came into our head.

   · Mapping is about writing the topic in the middle of a map, then connecting ideas to it, and so on, until making some kind of concept map.

From these three ways of brainstorming, the one that helped me the most to approach the topic and gather ideas was making a list, and maybe the reason is because it is the one that allowed me to actually brainstorm, that is to say, gathering a bunch of ideas related to the topic without even thinking how to connect them like in mapping, or developing a text that makes at least some sense like in freewriting.