{"id":72755,"date":"2011-11-28T09:21:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T14:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/72755\/maps-wisdom-leading\/"},"modified":"2011-11-28T09:21:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T14:21:46","slug":"maps-wisdom-leading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/72755\/maps-wisdom-leading\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps to wisdom &#8211; or leading nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How to grasp scientific texts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Start by reading the middle third; usually the first third is elementary stuff,  and the last third often is the author&#8217;s &#8216;obsessions&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the keyword list. The most important keywords will have the most page references. Concepts, that are named after a person, are usually important too. If you can, compare keyword lists from different books about the same subject; the most important keywords will be in all the lists.<\/p>\n<p>Use the table of contents (and the keywords) to make a mind map, probably easier with pen and paper than on the computer \ud83d\ude00 . <\/p>\n<p>Next, read the summaries.<\/p>\n<p>But most imporrtant: Always notice what you don&#8217;t understand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At last -the links  <\/strong>\ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"sultanzeydan.edublogs.com\">blog<\/a> with some more ideas, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.iqmatrix.com\/mind-map-image-gallery\"> mindmap gallery<\/a>. Some of them are just collections of buzzwords, while others are interesting.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to grasp scientific texts Start by reading the middle third; usually the first third is elementary stuff, and the last third often is the author&#8217;s &#8216;obsessions&#8217;. Read the keyword list. The most important keywords will have the most page references. Concepts, that are named after a person, are usually important too. If you can, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,2,587,18],"tags":[4573,4574],"class_list":["post-72755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-other","category-science","category-technology","tag-mind-maps","tag-scientific-texts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}