When doing
compare and contact research as well as any research, you have to
manage a lot of ideas and facts. There is a special approach to
catching and managing ideas called mind mapping or concept mapping.
Learn more about Mind Pad designed for managing your ideas during
comparative analysis.
You do compare and contrast research every time you need to make your choice or you need
to analyze information. Any industry involve compare and contrast task. Health care professionals might want to research different cases to find out similarities and differences. Legal professionals, educators, recruiters - all of them do compare and contrast research when doing their
job.
Mind Pad
You know that we have developed Compare Suite,
the file compare utility with unique “by keywords” feature. Now, we have designed another product that supports the process of compare
analysis - Mind Pad. Mind Pad is a mind mapping software. With
Mind Pad you can catch your ideas as a map topics, jot-down some short and
descriptive comments, add some graphics.
Mapping
With Mind Pad you can use all those features to catch and manage
ideas. It's possible to jot-down your ideas. Use Insert or Enter key to
create new topics. Or just double-click on workspace to create new
topics.
Objects for comparative analysis
In Mind Pad you can create object with any properties set. So for
Comparative Analysis task we have created an object with the following
properties:
Text.
The name of criterion. For instance, the price or some function of
solution you are evaluating and comparing.
Alternates, it's a place for possible description of
comparative analysis alternates.
Other properties are grouped into "comparison"
group. You can put here comparison details, your favorite choice by
this criterion (two or three alternates), and finally winner.
How to use Comparative Analysis Object
1. Make sure you followed instruction in zip
file and have installed model with Comparative Analysis
object.
2. Select a new object type using "Object" drop-down list.
Click on "Comparative_Analysis" option in the list;
3. Now you can create Comparative objects in Mind Pad. Double click
on workspace to create this type of object.
For more information, please, see Mind Pad "Get Started"
information in help file.
Specials
We do suggest you to try and use Mind Pad.
You can visit it's home page,
view products site, read some articles and download evaluation
version. Most important, special pricing for Mind Pad is available
for you. You can purchase Mind Pad for just 49$. Click here
to purchase.
Summary
We are comparing
"Pricing" of two products - Mind Pad and Mind Manager
using Mind Pad's custom object "Comparative Analysis"
With Mind Pad you can quickly put down
and focus on your key ideas, group them into topic branches or
detail into a single topics. Use Mind Pad to support thinking
and researching process.
Mind Pad custom object "Comparative Analysis" allows to
focus on comparative criterions (see picture, we are comparing
"Pricing" of two products - Mind Pad and Mind Manager).
Compare
and contrast essay.When
you compare things, you show their similarities; when you contrast
things, you show their differences.
Compare and contrast
research. You do compare and contrast research every time you
have to make your choice or you need to analyze information from
different sources.
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The name of criterion. For instance, the price or some function of
solution you are evaluating and comparing.
