Personal Spacing in Argumentative Writing

 

Many people tend to reduce vastly complicated issues to the personal level, or, vice versa, blur topical subject matters into vague, all-encompassing problems. Both render material into unacceptable or alienating forms by either oversimplifying or overcomplicating the topic at hand. To combat the horrors of organizing and structuring research or a composition, dividing a larger topic into subsets of correlative information can help to manage statistics, ideas, claims, and thoughts. Social, political, and historical filters help to focus and delineate information in a comprehensible and digestible manner. Instead of attempting to offer some grand insight into the scope of an immense issue, or sharing some irrelevant personal anecdote, separating a topic into manageable sections can help to create something that is truly critical and enlightening to a specific audience. Dissecting a subject into these categories can also help the writer structure their argument into different facets or points. This creates a more focused and effective argument on the whole. Also, considering the different ways a topic may relate to the world may broaden a writer's perspective. An author may not have acknowledged the social, political, or historical aspects to a topic prior to conducting research. Analyzing these broader features can attract a wider audience or just lend to the legitimacy of the writer. Ultimately, these subdivisions of an issue can give an argument the proper level of analysis to be able to approach and convince the audience.