Writing is an essential part of college life. Every student, from freshman to graduate, needs to develop good writing habits in order to succeed in life. Writing is essential to success even if one chooses not to attend college; it is essential in everyday life. For many people, writing is an evil task that teachers require, however there is a solution: the writing process. The writing process is a technique that includes: brainstorming, outlining, drafting, revision and editing. Follow those five easy tasks to get a paper started and finished successfully.
             Brainstorming is the first step in the writing process. Defined as "tossing out ideas," brainstorming is the best way to get your creative juices flowing. Brainstorming can be done in many forms including: free writing, looping, clustering, collaborating, and simply asking questions. Free writing is the least complicated of the five. It consists of writing consistently for a period of time. This technique allows one to write whatever comes to mind without the worry of grammar, spelling, or punctuation. Often the best ideas are presented in free writing techniques. Looping is a direct form of free writing. Rather than spending an extended period of time free writing, one spends a shortened amount free writing followed by the looping technique. One then reads what was written and finds the central or most intriguing idea in the paper. One then expands on it by summarizing the sentence from the first loop, and then the second sentence expands on the first. The third loop is found from the central idea of the second loop; and the process continues. Clustering is a visual way of generating ideas. One draws a center circle and writes a central idea in the middle. This is the central idea of the paper. To expand on it, one draws other rings extending from the central ring. The process repeats itself continually, until the page is filled with ri
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