Writing Made Easy by Mind Mapping

I started teaching the concept of mind mapping to my oldest two children recently. They're at the point where they are reading quite a volume of books and I want to make sure they are comprehending what they are reading. I want them to start to produce book reports or oral presentations. However, if they try, they sometimes run into 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.  It is easy to get paralyzed just wondering the way to get to the finish of a full page or two without a plan.  I'd like to help them start off on the right foot and think about 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 concerning the structure of a five paragraph report. This very traditional structure has an introductory paragraph, three main points about your subject, and a conclusion. However when  AI Mind Mapping  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 would like to cover your points concurrently that you are trying to generate them.

Because the time I grew up, there are a few new skills that make the process easier.  I told 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 think that's very conducive to just how that folks think. I think it is much easier to make a mind map and once the mind map is done, prioritize the nodes within your brain map to produce an outline. Once I have an outline I'm ready to start my article. I think that one of easy and simple ways to create the article from this point is to pretend that I'm speaking with someone who doesn't know about the subject that I'm presenting. I approach it in a conversational style. Or if my imaginary audience is familiar with the subject then I 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 can utilize the mind map as a guide to generating a written report.

At this point it really is probably smart 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 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 every idea that branches from that main idea. The branches can set off in any direction, it generally does not really matter at this point. The ideas that go in nodes also go within circles. A new node can be generated one for any idea that is associated with the topic. Here is the part of my mapping that's closest to brainstorming. There are also sub-nodes which might be put into each node in the mind map. This can break that node down 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 if they don't really belong there. The nodes can 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 some recoverable format, this is often done by simply writing numbers on each one of the main nodes. Now 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 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 relating to this subject. It could take several takes to get a clean recording without pauses.  Each recording gets just a little easier. Once I've a recording that I am happy with, I use computer software that translates speech to text to transcribe the 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 other document that I would write. If I want to go on 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 so I might have it in multiple formats.