February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
8h 23m
English
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56 Mind Mapping
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SYNTHESIS / ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE
56 Mind Mapping
When a topic or a problem has many moving parts, mind mapping provides a method of visually organizing a problem space in order to better understand it.
Mind mapping is a visual thinking tool that can help generate ideas and develop concepts when the relationships among many pieces of related information are unclear. It provides a nonlinear means of externalizing the information in our heads so that we can consolidate, interpret, communicate, store, and retrieve information. Because of its visual, diagrammatic nature, it is a powerful mnemonic device, and can be used to promote understanding and enhance ...