Mind Mapping: Discovering The Rhetoric Of The Right Brain
http://www.stc.org/confproceed/1994/PDFs/PG488.PDF

Whalen, Elizabeth A.
STC Proceedings
1994

Abstract:

Mind mapping is a visual technique of unleashing rightbrain rhetoric. Words and concepts are written down and circled; the circles are joined together into sets and subsets that indicate relationships but not necessarily organization. For the technical communicator, mind maps can improve the writing product by helping to break mental blocks, clarify project focus and connections, collect data without worrying about hierarchy and order, and begin to organize at any given level (detailed or general). Generating a mind map can help improve writing by consciously and deliberately using the right brain and its intuitive rhetoric.