Three types of brainstorming

The last Friday in practice class the teacher taught us three ways of brainstorming .  

Brainstorming consist in collect ideas about a topic before you write your essay in order to have all your ideas organised.

There are three types of brainstorming , the first one is making a list of ideas that are connected to your topic. It could be words o short sentences and you don´t have to write them in a specific order , just  whatever comes into you mind .

The second one is freewriting , you just have to write for around 10 minutes .The key is not to stop writing ,   

it doesn´t matter if something you write don´t make sense , you can fix that later . The more you write ,the better.

And the last one , which is the one that I prefer is mapping . You put the topic in the middle and all the   ideas around the topic in a circle , the ideas can be connected with the topic or with another idea . Maybe it   takes longer but I think with just a look you can see which ones are the main ideas and which ones are secondary ideas. It helps you a lot while you are writing your essay.