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I started teaching the concept of mind mapping to my oldest two children recently. They’re at the stage where they are reading quite a level of books and I want to make sure they are comprehending what they are reading. I’d like them to start to produce 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 get started and how they’ll fill the page. The problem is that they are trying to start without the structure. It is easy to get paralyzed just wondering how to get to the end of a full page or two with out a plan. I’d like to help them start on the right foot and think about their subject rather than thinking about what appears like the daunting nature of the duty at hand.

I had already shown them the concept of an outline and talked in their mind concerning the structure of a five paragraph report. AI Brainstorming comes with an introductory paragraph, three details about your subject, and a conclusion. But 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 want to cover your points simultaneously that you are trying to generate them.

Since the time I was raised, there are several new skills that produce the process easier. I explained to them that I take advantage of mind maps in the beginning of the procedure for organizing my thoughts. Mind mapping has less structured than an outline but it is not quite as free-form as brainstorming. I find that brainstorming does not give enough direction and I don’t think that is very conducive to just how that people think. I find it much easier to make a mind map as soon as the mind map is done, prioritize the nodes within your brain map to produce an overview. Once I have an outline I’m ready to start my article. I believe that one of easy and simple ways to create this article from this point is to pretend that I’m talking to someone who doesn’t know about the subject that I’m presenting. I treat it in a conversational style. Or if my imaginary audience knows the subject then I am probably going 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 can utilize 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 in fact it is put in a circle in the middle of a bit of paper. Alternatively, software may be used to build your brain map. Lines are extended from the primary circle to produce a new node for each and 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 can be generated one for any idea that is linked to the topic. This can be a section of my mapping that’s closest to brainstorming. There are also sub-nodes that can be put into each node in your brain map. This will break that node into more detail. This will be achieved in somewhat of a free of charge format, rapid manner.

Once all 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 even be prioritized. They may be numbered in order of importance or in the order that they can be covered in the report or presentation. In writing, this can be done by simply writing numbers on each of the main nodes. Given that the nodes are in order, this process can be applied to the sub-nodes. Once it is done, your brain map can easily transferred to an outline.

When I create a mind map, what I normally do next is record myself discussing the subjects in the order that I’ve chosen on my Music player. I imagine that I am speaking to someone about this subject. It might take a couple of takes to get a clean recording without pauses. Each recording gets a little easier. Once I have a recording that I am happy with, I use computer software 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 into a microphone with the software running. Once I’ve my document, I could edit it the way I would edit any document that I would write. If I want to take it a step further, I could 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.