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Writing Made Easy by Mind Mapping I started teaching the idea of mind mapping to my oldest two children recently. They are at the main point where they are reading a significant level of books and I want to get them to comprehending what they are reading. I want them to start to produce book reports or oral presentations. However, if 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 attempting to start without the structure. You can easily get paralyzed just wondering how to get to the finish of a full page or two with out a plan. I'd like to help them start off on the proper foot and think about their subject instead of thinking about what seems like the daunting nature of the duty at hand. I had already shown them the idea of an overview and talked to them concerning the structure of a five paragraph report. This very traditional structure has 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 that you would like to cover your points as well that you are trying to generate them. Because the time I grew up, there are several new skills that make the process 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 discover that brainstorming will not give enough direction and I don't think that's very conducive to the way that people think. I find it much easier to make a mind map and once the mind map is done, prioritize the nodes within the mind map to produce an overview. Once I have an outline 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 speaking with someone who doesn't know about the topic that I'm presenting. I treat it in a conversational style. Or if my imaginary audience is familiar with the subject i quickly am likely to be telling them about new details or new information regarding that subject. Once I've an idea of how to overcome this in a conversational style, I could utilize the mind map as helpful information to generating a written 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 and it is put in a circle in the middle of a piece of paper. Alternatively, software can be used to build your brain map. Lines are extended from the main circle to create a new node for each and every proven fact 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 associated with the topic. This can be a section of my mapping that's closest to brainstorming. Additionally, there are sub-nodes that could be added to each node in the mind map. This will break that node into more detail. This will be done in somewhat of a free format, rapid manner. Once all 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 even be prioritized. They are often numbered in order of importance 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. Now that the nodes come in order, this process can be put on the sub-nodes. Once it is done, the mind map can easily transferred to an outline. When I develop a mind map, what I normally do next is record myself discussing the subjects in the order that I've chosen on my MP3 player. I imagine that I'm speaking to someone relating to this subject. It could take a number of takes to get a clean recording without pauses. Each recording gets a little easier. Once I have a recording that I'm happy with, I use computer software that translates speech to text to transcribe the article into a word processor. AI Mind Mapping pay attention to the recordings with my headphones and repeat it into a microphone with the program running. Once I have my document, I could edit it the way I would edit any other document that I'd write. If I desire to take it a step further, I could 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.