Writing helps you think

• It might seem a bit odd, but writing helps you think.
• It makes you formalize your ideas.
• It makes you put your ideas down in some order.
• Once you've got your ideas down on paper you can reanalyse them.
• Writing well is even more beneficial.
• Putting the ideas down on paper forces you to put links between ideas.
• Writing so that other people can understand your argument forces you to simplify the ideas.
• Writing to assure that the ideas are correct forces you to rexamine your support for your ideas.
• To a big extent writing up your research is doing research.