Writing Made Easy by Mind Mapping
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I started teaching the idea of mind mapping to my oldest two children recently. They are at the main point where they are reading quite a volume of books and I wish to get them to comprehending what they're reading. I want them to start to produce book reports or oral presentations. However, when they try, they sometimes come across that age old problem of staring at a blank little bit of paper and are nearly sure how to get started and how they'll fill the page. The problem is that they are trying to start without any structure. You can easily get paralyzed just wondering getting to the end of a page or two with out a plan. I'd like to help them start off on the proper foot and consider their subject instead of thinking about what seems like the daunting nature of the task at hand.
I had already shown them the concept of an overview and talked in their mind about the structure of a five paragraph report. This very traditional structure comes with an introductory paragraph, three details 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 simultaneously that you are trying to generate them.
Since the time I was raised, there are a few new skills that make the process a lot easier. I explained to them that I take advantage of mind maps at the start of the process of organizing my thoughts. Mind mapping has less structured than an outline but it is not quite as free-form as brainstorming. I discover that brainstorming will not give enough direction and I don't believe that's very conducive to the way that folks think. I find it much easier to produce a mind map and once the mind map is done, prioritize the nodes within your brain map to produce an overview. Once I have an outline I'm prepared to start my article. I think that one of the easiest ways to create the article from this point would be to pretend that I'm speaking with someone who doesn't find out about the subject that I'm presenting. I approach it in a conversational style. Or if my imaginary audience is familiar with the subject i quickly am probably going to be telling them about new details or new information regarding that subject. Once I have an idea of how to overcome this in a conversational style, I can utilize the mind map as a guide to generating a report.
At this point it 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 devote a circle in the middle of a piece of paper. Alternatively, software can be used to build the mind map. Lines are extended from the main circle to produce a new node for each idea 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 new node can be generated one for just about any idea that is associated with the topic. This is the section of my mapping that's closest to brainstorming. Additionally, there are sub-nodes that could be put into each node in your brain map. This will break that node into more detail. This will be done in somewhat of a free of charge format, rapid manner.
Once all 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 are often numbered in order of importance or in the order that they can 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 come in order, this process can also be put on the sub-nodes. Once it 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 MP3 player. I imagine that I am speaking to someone relating to this subject. It could take a few takes to acquire a clean recording without pauses. Each recording gets just a little easier. Once AI Mind Mapping 've a recording that I am happy with, I take advantage of computer software that translates speech to text to transcribe the article into a word processor. I listen to the recordings with my headphones and repeat it right into a microphone with the program running. Once I've my document, I could edit it the way I would edit any other document that I would write. If I want to take it a step further, I can now read the edited document out loud 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 overview and talked in their mind about the structure of a five paragraph report. This very traditional structure comes with an introductory paragraph, three details 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 simultaneously that you are trying to generate them.
Since the time I was raised, there are a few new skills that make the process a lot easier. I explained to them that I take advantage of mind maps at the start of the process of organizing my thoughts. Mind mapping has less structured than an outline but it is not quite as free-form as brainstorming. I discover that brainstorming will not give enough direction and I don't believe that's very conducive to the way that folks think. I find it much easier to produce a mind map and once the mind map is done, prioritize the nodes within your brain map to produce an overview. Once I have an outline I'm prepared to start my article. I think that one of the easiest ways to create the article from this point would be to pretend that I'm speaking with someone who doesn't find out about the subject that I'm presenting. I approach it in a conversational style. Or if my imaginary audience is familiar with the subject i quickly am probably going to be telling them about new details or new information regarding that subject. Once I have an idea of how to overcome this in a conversational style, I can utilize the mind map as a guide to generating a report.
At this point it 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 devote a circle in the middle of a piece of paper. Alternatively, software can be used to build the mind map. Lines are extended from the main circle to produce a new node for each idea 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 new node can be generated one for just about any idea that is associated with the topic. This is the section of my mapping that's closest to brainstorming. Additionally, there are sub-nodes that could be put into each node in your brain map. This will break that node into more detail. This will be done in somewhat of a free of charge format, rapid manner.
Once all 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 are often numbered in order of importance or in the order that they can 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 come in order, this process can also be put on the sub-nodes. Once it 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 MP3 player. I imagine that I am speaking to someone relating to this subject. It could take a few takes to acquire a clean recording without pauses. Each recording gets just a little easier. Once AI Mind Mapping 've a recording that I am happy with, I take advantage of computer software that translates speech to text to transcribe the article into a word processor. I listen to the recordings with my headphones and repeat it right into a microphone with the program running. Once I've my document, I could edit it the way I would edit any other document that I would write. If I want to take it a step further, I can now read the edited document out loud with a microphone and record it in audio format on my computer therefore i can have it in multiple formats.
