The Importance Of Mind Mapping

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What did this activity involve you doing?
This mind map involved me creating a visual map of the key concepts and main ideas of netball. This meant choosing subheadings that were areas of netball that are important or areas that interest me. I chose 10 subheadings these were Coaching, Training, Fitness, Diet, Fitness Components in Netball, Income, Positions, Jobs, reaching a professional level and also Umpiring. This task then involved me adding to each subheading to narrow my research to a more precise topic and question. I found the process of narrowing down hard and it lead to me not completing this mind map, the topic of netball then came to a dead end and I decided to change my topic from netball to sport. How
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I broke my topic down into 6 subtopics, these were netball, basketball, income, injuries, training and careers. These topics are either important within sport or are topics that interest me. I created this mind map to help me narrow down my topic to become closer to my question. I then created a second mind map that took one of my subheadings from the first mind map and made that my main idea of the second. The main idea I choose was ‘Income in Sports’, I choose this as there is continuously news coverage on the topic, so I knew that there would be information available. I created the mind map around income and finally narrowed it down to ‘Income difference male vs female’, helping me become much closer to my research …show more content…
This activity helped me advance my planning as it set up a visual display of my ideas, it made my ideas much easier to understand. This mind map gave me a brief overview of my research and it helped me to narrow down sport to a much more precise aspect of the topic.

What was the outcome of this activity?
The outcome of this activity was that I became much closer to my question. In this activity, I narrowed a fairly large topic down to something much smaller. I started with sport and finished with “Income difference between male and female sports”. After this activity I had a much clearer idea of what my research question would be, and I eventually narrowed it down to my question “why is there such a large wage gap between females and males in professional sports?”.

What did this activity involve you

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