Extensive Reading The Kinds of Reading
studying.
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It this sense, mind mapping is a technique used to increase the reader‟s thinking. It is not only for educational need but also for other business, work, fun,
and so on. In accordance with those statements above, mind mapping is a
revolutionary new note taking;
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where many educational experts use it in teaching learning activity. Mind mapping can help students to plan, to
communicate, to be more creative, to economize the time, to center the attention, to arrange and to classify the ideas.
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Based on that fact, mind mapping would be effective for the students to comprehend the texts including descriptive text.
Next, according to Windura, mind mapping is also considered as a technique that enables us to explore all our brain‟s skill for thinking and
studying.
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It means that mind mapping can make our brain active, not only the left hemisphere but also the right hemisphere. Consequently, mind mapping can
overcome all the problems of study that appear from the unbalance of brain‟s usage.
Mind mapping is a diagram
used to represent words
, ideas
, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea.
Buzan views that Mind Mapping involves visualizing an issue, problem, subject etc. The subject of the Mind Map is dropped into
the centre, thick branches are drawn to denote key themes and secondary branches are added to indicate subthemes. Branches and
sub branches are clearly labeled either with key words or with graphic representations. Linkages and relationships are indicated
graphically, and use of color and pictures is encouraged.
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Based on that explanation, mind mapping may also aid recall of existing memories
because mind maps‟ elements arrange intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas,
with the goal of representing connections between portions of information. The example of mind mapping as following:
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Sutanto Windura, “Mind Map Langkah Demi Langkah”, 2008, p.16.
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Tony Buzan, The Speed Reading Book,2010, p.145
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Susi Purwoko, “Buku Pintar Mind Map”, Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2010. P.6.
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Sutanto Windura, BLI, Mind Map Langkah Demi Langkah, 2008, p. 16.
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Tony Buzan, The Speed Reading Book, 2010 p.145.
Figure 2.1 Mind Mapping
All mind mappings have some things in common. They have a natural organizational structure that radiates from the center and use lines, symbols,
words, color and images according to simple, brain-friendly concepts.
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The figure above can be further explained that there are some essential characteristics of
mind mapping. Those are The main idea, subject or focus is crystallized in a
central image. The main themes radiate from the central image as branches. The branches comprise a key image or key word drawn
or printed on its associated line. Topics of lesser importance are represented as twigs of the relevant branch. The branches form a
connected nodal structure.
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In sum up, a mind mapping is often created around a single word or text, placed in the center, to which associated ideas, words and concepts are added.
They generally take a hierarchical or tree branch format, with ideas branching into their subsections. Besides, mind mapping as a useful technique improves the way
you take notes, and supports and enhances your creative problem solving. It means that mind mapping can quickly identify and understand the structure of a
subject, and the way that pieces of information fit together, and it can encourage
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Ibid. p.5.
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Ibid. p.5.
creative problem solving , and hold information in a format that your mind finds
easy to remember and quick to review.