Thanks for your replies.
Yes, I have the Margulies book, and have also read the Mind Map book by Buzan. I think I need more practice, or rather, have more confidence with it for I feel often that I don't have it 'perfect'.
Sometimes I am unsure how to summarize a logical argument of an author in a short space -- perhaps pictures will help(?). And I have this problem with HIERARCHY -- for instance, when do you know when to take a new MAIN TOPIC branch? Sometimes I find all the branches going under one topic only, and some topics are just very small. Should a mindmap resemble (at least in structure) that of a logical outline
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Also, during the lecture, it seems that is it is too hard to keep changing colours/pens so I instead just use one pen. Then I will review it. What I was getting at was that I don't want too much detail becuase I want to be able to see the MAIN points and memorize those so that when the test comes up I won't have to wade through a stack of information.
You see, I tried mind mapping last year but I found that often I couldn't locate the main points, or often it would end up in a mess. Perhaps, I thought, I am trying to get too much detail into it and not searching out the BIG ideas. Also, it took AGES for me to re-do my mind map.
But I'll stick with it. I'll check out the Mapping Inner Space book again.
--Kenneth
