This distinction is very important, but often hard to see when sprawled across a piece of paper in words thus the capabilities in VUE of nodes and the coloring of nodes helps me distinguish what I am writing about and what I am using as source for writing about it.Īnother useful aspect of the nodes in VUE is that one may embed a node into another in this way I can identify an author or piece of writing, a link to a PDF, or even an image of an author, which I think helps me connect concepts to the real world. In such a case, the node would then be turned light tan because it has now taken on the role of subject in the paper. But let's say that, while using a source (dark red node), I begin to talk about the source. Dividing the node into two distinct types can help manage this back and forth in that I am visually aware of what I am doing with a piece of information or writing. I have found that my nodes often hop back and forth from source to subject, which can become confusing for myself and the reader. Using these source nodes makes it very easy to keep track of where the information came from, which helps keep the attribution clear. The other type of node is the source node, representing the information that I am plugging into the paper and the place that the information has come from these nodes are in dark red and often represent a particular writing, or my original ideas. Now that I have explained my conception of a node I will further divide up the two distinct uses of the node in my map: The first type is what is being written about, the subject of the paper these nodes appear in a light tan color. nodes) that I can arrange on a two-dimensional surface is a far more intuitive way of rearranging sentences or the narrative of a paper. Now this might sound confusing to a person who thinks in less visual ways, but for me turning sentences, or paragraphs, or sections into "physical things" (i.e. Moving a node from one place on the tree to another is equivalent to moving a sentence up or down in a Word document relative to the rest of the paper. Another way of looking at this is that the base node is the entire paper while the tips of each branch are individual sentences in the paper. A node is essentially equivalent to the sum of the nodes above it in this way we can see how the furthest branches of the tree or map I have created are equivalent to the most base node. If a thing represented by a node begins to expand beyond the conception of a single unit, it will be split because concepts, or things, can often be viewed as: an aspect of a larger unit a whole complete unit in itself or the conflation of multiple units. A node is anything that can be conceived as a distinct unit. Nodesįirst and foremost, the node represents things, not necessarily tangible things but specific units, such as concepts, authors, events, or objects. I will now explain the physical nature of this map, as well as its function as a tool for my process of constructing a coherent and expedient narrative of the emergence of a complex idea with complex origins. I have found that VUE, for me, is the most intuitive way of organizing the linear narrative of a non-linear universe this is how I have used VUE up until this time and what I used it for in the map that I presented on the featured map section of the VUE website. Of course, not all possible narratives are equal, and this is the rub: anyone can throw facts at a piece of paper, but to make those facts coherent in the most expedient and perhaps substantial way is the ultimate goal and mark of a well-written paper.
Conveying thought through writing is largely a task of organizing things linearly that have a non-linear nature this organization creates the need for a narrative to be formed (this is true for both fiction and non-fiction), a narrative that usually is only one of many possible narratives.
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Visual Understanding Environment (VUE), a program that I have yet to discover the full potential of, has proven, for me, a useful tool in the translation of abstract non-symbolic concepts into symbolic, objective form as importantly, it has proven useful in taming the nonlinear beast of thought by corralling it into the linear format of the written word. I am an extremely visual person the proposition or axiom that thought cannot exist without language is a proposition that is absurd. Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) as a Tool for the Construction of Narrative
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