pp. 46–9. You might use different examples, different evidence, and you
might have thought of different points, but the overall structure, based
on the principal issues the question raises, will be broadly the same.
Of course, not everything in these notes will find its way into your
final essay: they simply may not be strictly relevant. Brainstorming
depends upon your ability to follow your ideas and record them quickly
without close attention to relevance. Your internal editor will exert his
or her influence later. For now, the key is to allow your mind to make
all the connections, contrasts and extensions of ideas without slowing
it up with concerns about relevance. In the next chapterIn the next chapter you will learn how greater flexibility in your
approach to note-taking will help you catch more of these ideas and
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