This document outlines the process of academic writing, including various brainstorming techniques. It discusses choosing a topic, narrowing the topic, listing ideas, free writing, clustering ideas, and outlining. For choosing a topic, it recommends selecting something of interest with many references. Narrowing a topic makes it more focused and manageable for an assignment. Listing, free writing, and clustering are techniques to generate ideas about a topic. Outlining organizes ideas in preparation for writing. Examples and models of each technique are provided in referenced books.