Politics (in French) Cartographie argumentaire: pour mieux structurer la pensée – [Argument Mapping in a political context – what’s this?] Comment lire une carte argumentaire – [How to read an Argument Map] De la pertinence d’une élection décisionnelle pour faire l’indépendance du Québec – [A political think tank’s argument about Québec’s independance – a short abstract in English…
These handy “stamp” graphics are by Nikolai Bird. He’s made them freely available, on a “buy him a beer” basis.
EveryTopicInTheUniverseExceptChickensDotCom An argument map based on the Website http://www.everytopicintheuniverseexceptchickens.com/ Here, Ryan North argued that everyone should direct all vandalism of wikipedia to the page about chickens. This is why the page about chickens still cannot be editted. everytopicintheuniverse.rtnl
Just for fun Every topic in the universe except chickens Zombies should have human rights.Zombies.rtnl Harry Potter conspiracy theory. harry_evaluated.rtnl Rationale Art Rationale Art Rationale Flower
I’m intrigued by this debate. Here’s a map that considers the arguments reported in the above article (The Age, 6/10/05) shakespeare.rtnl Fiona
This is a good example of how films can be useful to show the significance of current events. You’ll notice that a few boxes have “thought bites” or an idea not framed in a sentence. This is fine to sketch an argument – though to do a really good job, propositions should be used (sentences that…
My favourite play! These maps are shown in both analysis mode and reasoning mode. You will see the usefulness of analysis – it shows the “proper” structure by combining those claims which work together to form a reason. By the way, when I was in Scotland many years ago I did a bit of…