 Meet Jerry. Jerry has to choose a topic for an assignment on ethics in animal treatment. But she's frustrated because she can't figure out where to begin. There just seems to be too much information for so broad a topic. So, she decides to create a mind map. She begins by writing her topic in the center of her paper. Then she thinks about subjects that might be related to her original idea and writes them around her topic. Next, she chooses a subtopic and begins breaking that down into categories. She can even break those into subcategories. Before long, she has a substantial list of topics and keywords that she can use to write her paper. She types one of her categories into a database and gets a much more manageable list of results. Be like Jerry. Mind map your way to success.