For Multilingual Writers: Using Your Native Language to Explore Ideas

Using Your Native Language to Explore Ideas

FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS

For generating and exploring ideas—the work of much brainstorming, freewriting, looping, and clustering—you may be most successful at coming up with good ideas quickly and spontaneously if you work in your native language. Later in the process of writing, you can choose the best of these ideas and begin working with them in English.