• List distractions and set aside.
• What do you already know; who, what, where, why, when, how.
• Choose one idea and write out all of your associations.
• Take a fresh look at the idea. What is the heart of the matter? Try to grasp the whole picture, not just the bits and pieces.
• Am I getting closer?
• Choose a thought from class that relates and describe what you know about it and how you think it connects to what you have already written.
• Read over what you have written.
• What was the progression of my thoughts?

These were given to me by my Gender Studies prof. I'm putting them here so that I'll always have them handy.

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• start w/ a free handwrite, stream of consciousness
• pretend it's not 6 pages; write a paragraph/page, then ask yourself what you could expand on
• make an outline
• "take notes, then connect the notes"
• never start with intro