Journal writing Journal writing is a good method of keeping your ideas at any time, or when they came at a certain part of the day. Its a good strategy when you want to start your essay, but you have a lot of information to be distributed; also you can easily add and remove information daily so can be easier to write your essay. It can also help when you need to answer questions about your topic and you need to gather all the answers so it can be easier to you to assemble your easy correctly. It is a good strategy to keep your journal writing in a document, because is easier to remove information that dont belong to your topic, so you dont need to write all the journal again. The journal writing can be more like narrowly and in a formal way than free writing, because on the journal you start to think as narrator, and you add formal words and sentences, so can be easier to your essay at the moment you start redacting. Clustering Is a manner to organize your ideas and start to analize the parts of each idea and when you dont need to generate more information. Its about a map that contents the general topic at the middle, then other lines or circles that shoot out from the original topic, and then cluster the ideas that seem to go together. When you have your ideas distribute on cluster, you can also find more ideas that you didnt know you can add to your essay, because the brain start to connect all the ideas, and you can imagine at the same time another ideas of the topic, and then start to develop the information easier than the begining. Its a good way to analize and visual your journal writing, brainstorm and freewriting, but honestly I find easier the brainstorm because you can put your ideas in riots, just like they pop out of your mind.