connections
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. Tony Buzan and Barry Buzan stated in their book The Mind Map Book that the mind mapping uses color and pictures to help constructing your
imagination with your style in making mind mapping. Words or pictures, which are in the curvy l
ines or branches, will help the students’ memory to make associations.
4. Advantages and Disadvantage of using Mind Mapping
Bill Lucas states, ―I also find that mind map is useful as a method of capturing my thoughts when I am writing an article or preparing
a speech‖
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. On the other hand, Mind Mapping has a benefit. Especially in teaching and learning
there are: a.
They automatically inspire interest in the students, thus making them more receptive and cooperative in the classroom.
b. They make lessons and presentations more spontaneous, creative and
enjoyable, both for teacher and the students. c.
Rather than remaining relatively rigid as the years go by the teacher’s note are flexible and adaptable. In these times of rapid change and
development, the teacher needs to be able to alter and add to teaching notes quickly and easily.
d. Because mind maps present only relevant material in a clear and
memorable form, the students tend to get better marks in examinations. e.
Unlike linear text, mind maps show no just the fact but the relationship between those facts, thus giving the students a deeper understanding of the
subject. f.
The physical volume of lecture notes is dramatically reduced. g.
Mind maps are especially useful for children with learning difficulties, particularly dyslexia. By freeing the ch
ild of the ‘tyranny of semantic,
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Bill Lucas, Power Up Your Mind, London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2001, p. 123.
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which often accounts for 90 of the difficulty, the mind map allows the child a far more natural, complete and accelerated selfexpression.
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While, the disadvantages of mind mapping are such as follows:
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a. Mind Mapping needs a lot of time in organization.
b. Mind Mapping has difficulties to allocate the time.
c. Mind Mapping needs many times to find an effective keyword.
D. Thinking Framework
Writing is an activity or process in delivering information or message. When someone is writing, he or she has to convey the message as clear as
possible as if the reader is in front of him or her. In Indonesia, actually, English has become compulsory subject taught from
Secondary School SMP up to Senior High School SMA. IN Junior High school, students learn several kinds of writing. One of those writing is descriptive writing.
Descriptive writing is a text, which describes a person, object or place. Based on the description above and based on writer’s observation, at the
seventh grade students of Junior High School at MTs. Yayasan Matla’ul Anwar
Nurul Kamal Bogor, she found that students still face some difficulties in generating the ideas and composing their writing especially descriptive writing.
To solve this problem, the writer thinks that mind mapping technique can be good technique to help students on their writing especially writing descriptive
text. Mind mapping is an image or a diagram, that represent words or ideas
linked with a central keyword. This technique could be away that stimulate the students to write descriptive writing easily because they will have opportunity to
make colorful pictures, lines, symbols, or signs to help them remember the word or the facts in their mind maps. So, every student will not feel bored in writing
their descriptive writing. Mind mapping leads the student to organize their ideas
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Buzan, Tony, The Mind Map Book, London: BBC Worldwide limited, 1993, pp. 191
—192.
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