You can think about the subtopics and details of the topic you want to write about and assign relationships among them in different ways. Some people draw simple straight lines, some make a circle in the middle and more circles with lines connecting them, and some draw a more complex combination of pictures, words, and lines. These are all ways to help you organize the million things that come to your mind before you begin writing. Like the brainstorming technique, you don’t have to use everything from your notes in your text. You pick only one or more related subtopics to discuss, exemplify, explain, etc.—in your text.
Look at the graphics below. See anything you usually do or any technique you think you could use in the future?
Branching
Clustering
Mind mapping
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This must be fun!!! I love mind mapping. I think we can use it in the making decision process, if we can make each branch as a choice and put some score in each sub branch then calculate total score of each branch and choose the best solution.