Auteur: bidstrupmedina62
Writing Made Easy by Mind Mapping I started teaching the concept of mind mapping to my oldest two children recently. They're at the point where they are reading a significant level of books and I wish to get them to comprehending what they are reading. I want them to start to create book reports or oral presentations. However, when they try, they sometimes come across that age old problem of looking at a blank piece of paper and are not quite sure how to begin and how they will fill the page. AI Mind Maps is that they are attempting to start without the structure. You can easily get paralyzed just wondering ways to get to the end of a page or two with out a plan. Let me help them start off on the right foot and think about their subject rather than thinking about what seems like the daunting nature of the task at hand. I had already shown them the concept of an outline and talked to them concerning the structure of a five paragraph report. This very traditional structure comes with an introductory paragraph, three main points about your subject, and a conclusion. But when you're coming up with the material to fill the report, you're still drawing a blank especially when you try to take into account the order you want to cover your points at the same time that you are attempting to generate them. Because the time I was raised, there are several new skills that produce the process easier. I told them that I use mind maps in the beginning of the process of organizing my thoughts. Mind mapping has less structured than an overview but it is not quite as free-form as brainstorming. I discover that brainstorming does not give enough direction and I don't think that's very conducive to the way that folks think. I think it is much easier to make a mind map as soon as the mind map is performed, prioritize the nodes within your brain map to produce an overview. Once I have an overview I'm ready to start my article. I think that one of the easiest ways to create this article from this point is to pretend that I'm talking to someone who doesn't know about the topic that I'm presenting. I approach it in a conversational style. Or if my imaginary audience is familiar with the subject then I am likely to be telling them about new details or new information about that subject. Once I've an idea of how to overcome this in a conversational style, I can use the mind map as a guide to generating a report. At this point it really is probably a good idea to define what mind mapping happens to be. A mind map is started with a central topic and it is devote a circle in the center of a bit of paper. Alternatively, software can be used to build the mind map. Lines are extended from the primary circle to create a new node for every proven fact that branches from that main idea. The branches can go off in any direction, it doesn't really matter at this stage. The ideas that go in nodes also go within circles. A fresh node could be generated one for any idea that is linked to the topic. This can be a section of my mapping that is closest to brainstorming. Additionally, there are sub-nodes which might be put into each node in your brain map. This can break that node into more detail. This will be done in somewhat of a free format, rapid manner. Once all of the topics are listed on a mind map, the nodes can be reviewed and filtered out should they don't really belong there. The nodes can also be prioritized. They are often numbered in order of importance or in the order that they will be covered in the report or presentation. On paper, this is often done by simply writing numbers on each of the main nodes. Given that the nodes are in order, this process can also be applied to the sub-nodes. Once it is done, the mind map can easily used in an outline. When I create a mind map, what I normally do next is record myself talking about the subjects in the order that I've chosen on my Music player. I imagine that I am speaking to someone relating to this subject. It might take several takes to obtain a clean recording without pauses. Each recording gets a little easier. Once I've a recording that I'm happy with, I take advantage of computer software that translates speech to text to transcribe the article right into a word processor. I pay attention to the recordings with my headphones and repeat it into a microphone with the software running. Once I have my document, I could edit it the way I would edit any document that I would write. If I desire to take it a step further, I can now read the edited document aloud with a microphone and record it in audio format on my computer therefore i can have it in multiple formats.