In Class: Chapter 1 Reflection

After having read Chapter 1 of Everything's an Argument, I feel the definition of arguments and expressing opinions has turned to a more functional perspective. The chapter explains each and every different aspect of organizing argumentative ideas and concepts into ways that efficiently present one's idea and how to strongly appeal to a specific audience. The chapter was divided into many sections and each individual section heading was labelled with a different aspect of writing/presenting argumentatively. I, personally, would not have broken my ideas down into so many different categories and organized them into different sections with one overall idea. i probably would have just thrown out pros and cons in, at best, a disorderly fashion; maybe i would have at least split down the middle into pros first, then cons. or a single pro then a con to whatever opinion or concept was being debated. after reading the chapter, however, i believe it would be a wise idea to ask myself a few questions such as: who is the audience? or what do i really want to express? or what kind of argument am i going to attempt?
there are different kinds of arguments that the chapter outlined, many i didn't even really consider arguments. you can argue to explore, discuss, and discover, not just in effort to convince or persuade an opposing viewpoint to convert to your conceptualization of the idea or opinion at hand.