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Map Your Ideas

Choose a topic that interests you, something you'd like to know more about.

You could start with a very broad topic, for example, higher education.

But you would find way too much information on this subject--enough to write several books! The topic is too broad.

To develop and narrow your topic begin by "mapping out" your ideas to create a concept map. A concept map is a way to visually convey your topic idea and related concepts.

Concept mapping wil help you organize your ideas and further develop your topic.

Let's start a map with the above example, higher education.

Trouble brainstorming?

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