Circle these two concepts and link them with a solid line. Label the line with a linking phrase. Work your way down the page, adding increasingly specific concepts and looking for crosslinks, which should be drawn with dashed lines. Do a second version of the map with the goal being to add formerly unnoticed crosslinks and to organize the map so that it flows as logically and as clearly as possible. Guidelines for the Most Helpful Maps 1.
Concepts are usually nouns.
Label ALL links and crosslinks with linking phrases. Links generally consist of verbs, but other words may be used where appropriate. Circle the concepts, leave examples uncircled. Each concept should only appear once in a given map. Redundancy of concepts usually indicates that you missed an important conceptual relationship.