Why my picture is of an eagle

Why is my picture of an eagle totally owning a swallow?  Because it just is.  I thought it was awesome, but I'll need to make a smaller version for it to work.

Anyway, I thought I'd tackle a good issue today: brainstorming.  Here's an example I just made up off the top of my head:

Support or refute the assertion by the author that supports of abortion are responsible for the "gendercide" committed in China and India.

If you don't know what gendercide is, it's a soundbite word designed to make an emotional response.  It combines "genocide" with "gender" to create gendercide.  What it means is that many girls in China and India are being aborted just for being girls.  The author believes that any person who is pro-choice, or a supporter of abortion, is thus morally responsible for this happening.  We must now support or refute it.

Let me take the position of supporting the author.  I'll think of three ideas off the top of my head.
1. People who are pro-choice are empowering those in India/China to do this, so they are morally responsible.
2. Abortion is unnatural, so this choice would otherwise not be available without pro-choicers.
3. If abortion were not legal, this would not be happening

I'll pick the first point as my first paragraph, second as second, and third as third.  There is no elaboration here, there is no deep thought, there is only the first things that I thought of.  Your gut is usually right!  Write each of these down, and then say "introduction" at the top of the page and put your hook there.  Then at the conclusion section, write "conclusion" and then write what sort of bang you want your paper to go out with.  It should look like:

"Introduction" >abortion is murder. get over it.<
a. three reasons
"paragraph one"
point one from above
"paragraph two"
point two from above
"paragraph three (optional, usally)"
point three from above
"conclusion"
recap, >if you support the right to terminate a baby you support the right to gendercide<

That's a quick brainstorming session that can be done in under five minutes.  Don't write any details.  Just start writing, and if you think of a new idea then disregard it.  If you want details, put them in once you have a topic sentence formulated.  Remember - until you have a topic sentence, you do not have a paragraph.  Get a topic sentence and build from there, don't just start writing.

Oh, and by the way, this was actually based off of a debate I had before.  I didn't agree with the author's assertion, because it's retarded.