People retain information in pieces, therefore you should group your arguments in pieces (chunks) that your audience can digest.
I got the idea of chunking arguments came from a book called “Moon Walking with Einstein” by Joshua Foer. It is about a journalist who enters the U.S. Memory Championship and ends up winning it. One of the tricks he used to help his memory was to chunk things together (i.e. like a phone number). This led me to the conclusion people remember things in chunks, so we should group are arguments in chunks to make it easy for judges and jurors to remember.
THE REASON FOR CHUNKING
There is a reason there are spaces between the numbers on your credit card, and why we use paragraphs when we write. There is a reason why books have chapters and subchapters. The reason is its easier to digest and remember information in chunks. If all our arguments are just thrown out there they will be extremely difficult to understand. Therefore it is important to chunk your arguments in a way that can be easily digested.
Arguments are generally easier to digest when they are chunked together by topic. They should also be arranged logically, so the ideas and facts build on each other. If a specific argument is too long it should be broken into two or more groups. This can be done by either dividing them into two separate topics, or dividing the long topics into subtopics. If a topic is too short, you might want to combine it with a broader topic, or with another short topic as a broader category.
DEVELOP TOOL BOX
The different methods you use to put together your arguments in chunks will make up your tool box to divide your arguments into pieces your audience will be able to digest. While there are times it might be difficult to chunk your arguments in a way that can be easily digested, as you sharpen your tools, and add to your tool box it will become much easier.
