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I started teaching the idea of mind mapping to my oldest two children recently. They are at the stage where they are reading quite a volume of books and I wish to make sure they are comprehending what they are reading. I’d like them to start to produce book reports or oral presentations. However, if they try, they sometimes run into that age old issue of looking at a blank piece of paper and are nearly sure how to get started and how they’ll fill the page. The thing is that they are trying to start without the structure. You can easily get paralyzed just wondering the way to get to the end of a page or two with out a plan. Let me help them start on the right foot and consider 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 overview 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. However when you’re coming up with the material to fill the report, you’re still drawing a blank particularly when you try to think about the order that you want to cover your points concurrently that you are trying to generate them.

Since the time I was raised, there are some new skills that produce 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 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 folks think. I find it much easier to make a mind map as soon as the mind map is done, prioritize the nodes within the mind map to produce an outline. Once I have an outline I’m prepared to start my article. I believe that one of easy and simple ways to create the article from this point would be to pretend that I’m talking to someone who doesn’t find out about the topic that I’m presenting. I treat it in a conversational style. Or if my imaginary audience knows 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 utilize the mind map as a guide to generating a written 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 devote a circle in the middle of a bit of paper. Alternatively, software can be used to build your brain map. Lines are extended from the primary circle to produce a new node for each proven fact that branches from that main idea. The branches can go off in any direction, it doesn’t really matter at this point. 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. This can be the part of my mapping that’s closest to brainstorming. There are also sub-nodes which might be put into each node in your brain map. This will break that node down into more detail. This should 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 should they don’t really belong there. The nodes can be prioritized. They might be numbered in order of importance or in the order that they will be covered in the report or presentation. In some recoverable format, this can be done by simply writing numbers on each one of the main nodes. Given that the nodes come in order, this process can even be put on the sub-nodes. Once it is done, your brain map can easily transferred to an outline.

When I develop 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 concerning this subject. AI Mind Maps could take a number of takes to acquire a clean recording without pauses. Each recording gets just a little easier. Once I have a recording that I am happy with, I take advantage of software applications that translates speech to text to transcribe the article into a word processor. I listen to the recordings with my headphones and repeat it 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 would write. If I desire to take it a step further, I could now browse the edited document out loud with a microphone and record it in audio format on my computer so I can have it in multiple formats.