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    Concept mapping is a visual tool to organize information and ideas. It can help brainstorm topics, summarize existing knowledge, and examine relationships between concepts. A concept map shows complex ideas at a glance and helps narrow a broad topic into a more focused research question. For example, a concept map on "vegetarianism" could help focus a research question. Creating a concept map is recommended to organize current thinking and ideas about a research topic before further exploring the topic through additional resources.

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    Concept Mapping

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    Concept mapping is a visual tool to organize information and ideas. It can help brainstorm topics, summarize existing knowledge, and examine relationships between concepts. A concept map shows complex ideas at a glance and helps narrow a broad topic into a more focused research question. For example, a concept map on "vegetarianism" could help focus a research question. Creating a concept map is recommended to organize current thinking and ideas about a research topic before further exploring the topic through additional resources.

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    Lecture Notes on Concept Mapping for papers & general ideas

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    Concept mapping is a visual tool to organize information and ideas. It can help brainstorm topics, summarize existing knowledge, and examine relationships between concepts. A concept map shows complex ideas at a glance and helps narrow a broad topic into a more focused research question. For example, a concept map on "vegetarianism" could help focus a research question. Creating a concept map is recommended to organize current thinking and ideas about a research topic before further exploring the topic through additional resources.

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    Concept Mapping

    Concept mapping is a way to organize and represent knowledge visually. It can help you
    brainstorm ideas for your writing, summarize and organize what you already know about a topic,
    and examine relationships between ideas. A concept map allows you to understand complex
    information or ideas at a glance, and is a useful tool to help you find an interesting topic for
    your paper.
    Concept maps can help writers narrow their topic from something broad like obesity to a more
    specific research question(s) such as What are the societal influences that lead to obesity in
    American children, and what steps should we take toward prevention? Heres an example of a
    concept map on the broad topic of vegetarianism:



    -Jim Kinnie, University of Rhode Island http://www.uri.edu/library/staff_pages/kinnie/lib120/vegmap.gif
    Get started by watching this YouTube video on concept mapping:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhgxuNvbNrA
    Create a concept map as a way to organize the thinking youve done so far, and to brainstorm
    ideas about your topic. Using the space below, start by placing your initial topic in the center
    this is the you are here that represents the beginning of your research.
    1. Near this central topic write subquestions and subtopics. Around your central topic, write
    important concepts, questions, issues, people, and events. Draw lines or branches between
    related keywords/phrases and your topic, showing the relationship between items.
    2. Next Steps From Concept Map to Focusing your Topic:
    a) Is there one part of the concept map that interests you in particular? What about this interests
    you?
    b) Your concept map relied on what you already know and think about your topic. Now think
    about what you do not know and what you would like to know about your topic. Write down
    some of those ideas and questions to follow up on here.
    c) Which specific elements seem of interest to you at this point? Please make some notes to
    yourself as to why these interest you.
    d) What kinds of resources do you think you might want to use for your research? Do you want
    to find current articles from popular magazines, interviews, historical information, scholarly
    books and journal articles, government reports, websites (what kinds?), art works, organizations,
    and/or other types of information?
    Once youve made a list of different types of sources, say a little bit about why you think these
    individual sources may be useful for your research.

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