Draw Your Argument! Introduction to the Symposium

"Draw your argument!" Many of us have been told to do this by supervisors and reviewers and have even returned the favor, urging our students and colleagues to do the same. But how exactly should we draw arguments to maximize theoretical clarity and the productivity of subsequent empirical work? While causal chains are central to the work of researchers in the qualitative and mixed methods community, there is surprisingly little guidance on the standards one should comply with when presenting theoretical arguments in graphical form.