Writing Made Easy by Mind Mapping

I started teaching the concept 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 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 issue of staring at a blank little bit of paper and are nearly sure how to get started and how they will fill the page. The problem is that they are attempting to start without any structure.  You can easily get paralyzed just wondering how to get to the end of a page or two without a plan.  I'd like to help them start 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 in their mind 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 discovering the material to fill the report, you're still drawing a blank especially when you try to take into account the order that you want to cover your points at the same time that you are trying to generate them.

Since the time I was raised, there are several new skills that make the process easier.  I explained to them that I use 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 does not give enough direction and I don't believe that is very conducive to just how that folks think.  AI Brainstorming  find it much easier to make a mind map and once the mind map is performed, prioritize the nodes within your brain map to produce an overview. Once I have an overview I'm prepared to start my article. I believe that one of the easiest 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 subject that I'm presenting. I approach it in a conversational style. Or if my imaginary audience knows the subject i quickly am likely to be telling them about new details or new information regarding that subject. Once I have an idea of how to approach this in a conversational style, I could use the mind map as a guide to generating a report.

At this point it is probably smart to define what mind mapping actually is. A mind map is started with a central topic and it is devote a circle in the middle of a bit of paper.  Alternatively, software may be used to build the mind map. Lines are extended from the main circle to create a new node for each idea that branches from that main idea. The branches can set 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 any idea that is associated with the topic. This can be the part of my mapping that is closest to brainstorming. There are also sub-nodes that could be put into each node in your brain map. This can break that node into more detail. This should be achieved 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 if they don't really belong there. The nodes can 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 writing, this can be done by simply writing numbers on each of the main nodes. Given that the nodes come in order, this process may also be applied to the sub-nodes. Once it really is done, the mind map can easily used in 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 Music player. I imagine that I am speaking to someone about this subject. It might take a few takes to acquire a clean recording without pauses.  Each recording gets a little easier. Once I have a recording that I am happy with, I use software applications that translates speech to text to transcribe the article right into a word processor. I pay attention to the recordings with my headphones and repeat it right into a microphone with the software running. Once I've my document, I could edit it just how I would edit any document that I'd write. If I want to go on it a step further, I can now browse the edited document aloud with a microphone and record it in audio format on my computer so I can have it in multiple formats.