The thing I’d most want to see in an article in favor of argument mapping is examples of well-mapped arguments.
My sense (as of several years ago, which is the last time I thought much about this) is that the idea of argument mapping sounds promising, but it hasn’t worked well in practice. The various attempts to create argument mapping software & communities haven’t led to arguments being captured well.
It could also be interesting to see smaller/narrower examples, e.g. of a single claim within an argument rather than of a whole well-mapped argument. Especially if you can highlight a problem that many argument mapping projects have, give a small/narrow example of it, and then talk about how your preferred approach to argument mapping tries to do better, with a small/narrow example of what that looks like.
The thing I’d most want to see in an article in favor of argument mapping is examples of well-mapped arguments.
My sense (as of several years ago, which is the last time I thought much about this) is that the idea of argument mapping sounds promising, but it hasn’t worked well in practice. The various attempts to create argument mapping software & communities haven’t led to arguments being captured well.
It could also be interesting to see smaller/narrower examples, e.g. of a single claim within an argument rather than of a whole well-mapped argument. Especially if you can highlight a problem that many argument mapping projects have, give a small/narrow example of it, and then talk about how your preferred approach to argument mapping tries to do better, with a small/narrow example of what that looks like.