University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Brainstorming

This handout describes brainstorming as " taking advantage of your natural thinking processes by gathering your brain's energies into a 'storm.'" Learn how to use brainstorming techniques to gather ideas before you begin a project or to move forward with a project which has gone stale. It presents more than a dozen brainstorming techniques or exercises to help you gather ideas at whatever stage of a project you need them.