Summarization is an effective form of text mapping
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008With the Context Organizer for MindManager a text summary is instantly converted into a MindManager map without any loss of relevant text content.
The automatic map generation frees the user from tedious map charting while providing more opportunity to focus on shaping the visually mapped information.
Summaries lead the mind to focus on essential content. This enables faster evaluation and comprehension. While summarising, the reader effectively engages in efficient contextual comprehension by gaining both the big picture and the detail expressions.
Summarization reveals text structures, while contextual associations are clearly revealed through highlighted keywords.
The Context Organizer provides the reader with the most relevant keywords as a guide to the most significant statements within the body of text. The keywords work as quick filters enabling users to focus on the most relevant sentences of interest.
Further, the use of keywords navigates the reader through summarized content providing a superior visual format which is a more practical manager to rapid comprehension of content in context.
The advantage of using summarization for text mapping is that summarization provides the most accurate and direct text representation in the form of the most relevant keywords and sentences.
This direct approach by Context Organizer is superior to other graphical techniques which are abstract representations of text and always require further explanation. Information mapping is a record of the reader’s comprehension, or lack of it. It’s not uncommon for graphical mapping to have little to do with the text, and the formats often used make it difficult to interpret, leaving too much for the reader to extrapolate and/or reconstruct.
Graphic organizers indeed have their place, I do however believe that summarization as a text mapping technique, effectively complements graphic organizers, by bridging the gap between texts and corresponding abstracted diagramming.
A summary as a text map provides superior expression for creating accurate and complete visual maps. This is one of the reasons that Context Organizer integrates seamlessly with Mindjet MindManager.
With the Context Organizer for MindManager a text summary is instantly converted into a MindManager map without any loss of relevant text content. The automatic map generation frees the user from tedious map charting while providing more opportunity to focus on shaping the visually mapped information. This is a unique and valuable addition that significantly enhances MindManager’s effectiveness.
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