Angle of Vision

            Angle of vision, in my words, is stating facts, statistics, or information in a way that betters your story or argument for a particular audience. As the book states, how you tell your friends and grandparents what you did this weekend is going to differ, and possibly quite significantly.  It depends on the message you want your audience to get, in this case you tell your friend how crazy this party was, and you tell your grandparents you just hung out with a few friends, to keep your perfect grandchild image.   Many people have been doing this their whole life, including me, but it almost comes as second nature.  It is something do so often and don't even think about.  No matter whom we are telling a story to or talking to we tell them what we think they want to hear or need to know.

            Now, to question angle of vision.  It happens so often in social situations that it goes unnoticed.  But, when it comes to writing academic papers I don’t think it is the best approach to be taken.  When you are writing a persuasive paper, of course you are going to want to say what makes your argument sound better. That’s the point of a persuasive paper, to challenge and even change the readers mind on a particular topic.  But, if you are writing a scholarly paper or in a scholarly journal I think to be more credible you would want to show both sides.  In a class I had last semester, we spent a couple weeks on analyzing scholarly articles.  Many of these articles were on controversial topics, but many were biased which hurt their credibility.  If you are trying to get a person to make a decision, shouldn’t they be presented with all the facts?  Once you’ve been taught how to analyze articles, you begin to notice bias or “angle of vision” more readily and in the end it can hurt the authors credibility.