Understanding the issue

The speaker cares about an issue.

Useful questions:

  • What is the domain?
  • What is the issue?
  • What's caused it to be an issue?
  • Who does it affect?
  • How does it affect them?
  • What's the speaker’s core argument? (Claim & reason)
  • What's their evidence?
  • Why is this an issue? Why would anyone dispute it?