Writing Made Easy by Mind Mapping
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I started teaching the concept of mind mapping to my oldest two children recently. They are at the stage where they are reading a significant level of books and I wish to get them to comprehending what they are reading. I'd like them to start to create book reports or oral presentations. However, when they try, they sometimes run into that age old issue of staring at a blank piece of paper and are not quite sure how to begin and how they will fill the page. The thing is that they are trying to start without the structure. You can easily get paralyzed just wondering how to get to the finish of a page or two without a plan. I'd like to help them start off on the proper 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 about 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. However when you're discovering the material to fill the report, you're still drawing a blank especially when you try to think about the order that you would like to cover your points at the same time that you are trying to generate them.
Because the time I was raised, there are some new skills that make the process a lot easier. I explained to them that I use mind maps in the beginning of the procedure for organizing my thoughts. Mind mapping has less structured than an outline but it isn't quite as free-form as brainstorming. I find that brainstorming does not give enough direction and I don't believe that is very conducive to the way that people think. I find it much easier to produce a mind map as soon as the mind map is performed, prioritize the nodes within the mind map to produce an outline. Once I have an overview I'm prepared to start my article. I believe 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 find out about the subject that I'm presenting. I treat 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 regarding that subject. Once I've an idea of how to approach this in a conversational style, I could use the mind map as helpful information to generating a report.
At this point it really is probably a good idea to define what mind mapping actually is. A mind map is started with a central topic in fact it is put in a circle in the center of a bit of paper. Alternatively, AI Brainstorming may be used to build your brain map. Lines are extended from the primary circle to make a new node for every idea that branches from that main idea. The branches can set off in any direction, it doesn't really matter at this time. The ideas that go in nodes also go within circles. A fresh node could be generated one for just about any idea that is linked to the topic. It is the section of my mapping that is closest to brainstorming. There are also sub-nodes that may be added to each node in the mind map. This can break that node down into more detail. This will be done in somewhat of a free of charge format, rapid manner.
Once all of the topics are listed on a mind map, the nodes could be reviewed and filtered out if they don't really belong there. The nodes may also be prioritized. They might be numbered in order worth focusing on or in the order that they will be covered in the report or presentation. In some recoverable format, this could be done by simply writing numbers on each of the main nodes. Given that the nodes are in order, this process can also be put on the sub-nodes. Once it really is done, the mind map can easily transferred to 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'm speaking to someone concerning this subject. It might take a couple of takes to acquire a clean recording without pauses. Each recording gets just a little easier. Once I've a recording that I'm happy with, I use software applications that translates speech to text to transcribe this article right into a word processor. I listen to the recordings with my headphones and repeat it right into a microphone with the software running. Once I have my document, I can edit it just how I would edit any document that I'd write. If I want to take it a step further, I can now browse the edited document aloud with a microphone and record it in audio format on my computer therefore i can have it in multiple formats.
I had already shown them the concept of an outline and talked to them about 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. However when you're discovering the material to fill the report, you're still drawing a blank especially when you try to think about the order that you would like to cover your points at the same time that you are trying to generate them.
Because the time I was raised, there are some new skills that make the process a lot easier. I explained to them that I use mind maps in the beginning of the procedure for organizing my thoughts. Mind mapping has less structured than an outline but it isn't quite as free-form as brainstorming. I find that brainstorming does not give enough direction and I don't believe that is very conducive to the way that people think. I find it much easier to produce a mind map as soon as the mind map is performed, prioritize the nodes within the mind map to produce an outline. Once I have an overview I'm prepared to start my article. I believe 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 find out about the subject that I'm presenting. I treat 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 regarding that subject. Once I've an idea of how to approach this in a conversational style, I could use the mind map as helpful information to generating a report.
At this point it really is probably a good idea to define what mind mapping actually is. A mind map is started with a central topic in fact it is put in a circle in the center of a bit of paper. Alternatively, AI Brainstorming may be used to build your brain map. Lines are extended from the primary circle to make a new node for every idea that branches from that main idea. The branches can set off in any direction, it doesn't really matter at this time. The ideas that go in nodes also go within circles. A fresh node could be generated one for just about any idea that is linked to the topic. It is the section of my mapping that is closest to brainstorming. There are also sub-nodes that may be added to each node in the mind map. This can break that node down into more detail. This will be done in somewhat of a free of charge format, rapid manner.
Once all of the topics are listed on a mind map, the nodes could be reviewed and filtered out if they don't really belong there. The nodes may also be prioritized. They might be numbered in order worth focusing on or in the order that they will be covered in the report or presentation. In some recoverable format, this could be done by simply writing numbers on each of the main nodes. Given that the nodes are in order, this process can also be put on the sub-nodes. Once it really is done, the mind map can easily transferred to 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'm speaking to someone concerning this subject. It might take a couple of takes to acquire a clean recording without pauses. Each recording gets just a little easier. Once I've a recording that I'm happy with, I use software applications that translates speech to text to transcribe this article right into a word processor. I listen to the recordings with my headphones and repeat it right into a microphone with the software running. Once I have my document, I can edit it just how I would edit any document that I'd write. If I want to take it a step further, I can now browse the edited document aloud with a microphone and record it in audio format on my computer therefore i can have it in multiple formats.
