The purpose of this assignment is to give you experience with concept mapping. For this assignment, you will read the attached article and follow the directions below.
- Read the article carefully. Do not attempt to write a summary or use a highlighter pen to mark ideas. Immediately after reading the article, determine the central or focus concepts and issues that emerge. Use the abstract of the paper to confirm this.
- Re-read the paper; concentrate on extending your understanding of the central concept by identifying important subordinate concepts, words phrases, statements of relationships. Begin listing these.
- Once you have generated a list, rank the concepts from the most abstract and inclusive to the most concrete and specific.
- Begin to cluster your concepts. Make judgments about the closeness of association using two criteria
- At a similar level of abstraction
- Directly related i.e. one concept is directly explained in terms of the other
- Arrange your concepts as a two dimensional array incorporating the hierarchies previously determined
- Link related concepts with lines and directional arrows, labeling each line clearly with brief explanatory notes. Work with one pair of concepts at a time.
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