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StenErik

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Book Outlining
« on: December 27, 2007, 05:23:17 am »
I am currently in grad school, and have copious amounts of reading to do, much of which needs to be critically read and absorbed.

I was thinking of using NovaMind as a study aid as I am reading different books.  Essentially outline the books, and using the text areas as places to capture quotes or more detailed concepts.

Doing this all on one sheet can get very cluttered - has anyone done this before, or designed a template of some sort that I could use as a launch pad?

Thanks!
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Re: Book Outlining
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2008, 03:32:17 pm »
Is that a no?   ???

Oh well!  I'm still enjoying the software, and working on finding a good workflow. 

Thanks!
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Re: Book Outlining
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2008, 09:25:21 pm »
This is a very common thing to do with NovaMind - something that a lot of people do to simply things is to have a separate map for each chapter, within the same document, and/or keep to a single keyword on each branch as much as possible, and use color and images to help with impact, meaning and association.

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Re: Book Outlining
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2011, 06:58:49 am »
 I did this for one of my 1st yr psychology subject just recently.  had been focusing on another psych subject and neglected this one.  had a mid term exam coming up so had to compress 6 weeks of material(9 chpts of textbook)  into 1 week of study.  I organised the structure and flow of each chpt with my novamind 5 software and it served me well.  I got a distinction mark with 16 mins left to go.  If i only had spent that last 16 mins going over my answers again i could have bumped it up to a high distinction.
I now do the mind map as the first task to each new weeks topic now.
and also finding that once you know the structure of the written word, you can then not only read academically better(not being a natural reader),you can write academically better and you can mind-map more easily
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Re: Book Outlining
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2012, 01:30:05 am »
my son did this for his classes = 1 map per chapter = the teacher required all students to outline every chapter - at first site, teacher DID NOT like the idea of Mind Maps - but he NOW teaches with them  ! ! = son got all A in first year - he BLAMES mind mapping for his success ;)
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