audience? 1. Generate ideas: Brainstorming, freewriting, clustering/mapping, questioning, and researching are all great ways to generate ideas for your writing. 2. Gather information: Once you have your ideas, you can use a variety of sources such as books, magazines, journals, websites and other online sources to gather more information on the topic. 3. Organize information: Once you have gathered the necessary information for your writing piece it is important to organize it in a way that makes sense and is easy for your intended audience to understand. Outlining or using a graphic organizer are both helpful ways to organize the material in an effective way.