Multi-Flow Map Model for Research Paper

Congratulations on a great discussion today on the conflict in Kashmir and the causes and effects. I hope that you found that determining causes and effects from one source, even a short Newsweek article, was easy to do. I also hope that you found a way to avoid plagiarism by putting your ideas into a multi-flow map and then writing a summary. Just think how easy the research paper will be to complete if every group member uses the same cause & effect thinking and organizes ideas from their sources in a multi-flow map.

If you want to see a full-screen version of the Kashmir multi-flow map, simply click on the image.

Ideally, your two blog posts on your research paper topic will both have used Thinking Maps software to summarize information and provide a visual for your group members. The paper would practically write itself if every member did this.

The other great outcome of today was how you took the details from the text and made them into big ideas for the multi-flow map. If we had time, we would have written those direct quotes that led you to those big ideas in the frame of the map. When you are using an Internet source, you can copy and paste those supporting quotations into the frame of your map. Just remember to use quotation marks so that you know that you lifted the ideas or you may forget and end up being guilty of plagiarism.

To make a frame with Thinking Maps software, simply click the icon on the left side that shows "add a frame" when you hover over it. Then you will get an icon in the left-hand toolbar that allows you to add text to the frame.

Thanks Anna for making the map in class today.

If you want to read the article on Kashmir, click here to go to the Newsweek online version.