Dialectical Dialogue
The 5 Canons of Rhetoric (p 108 - 112).
The section on dialectic (p 112 -134).
Example of Dialectic Pulp Fiction.
Example of Dialectic Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Read the excerpt from Plato's Gorgias found in the textbook (p335 - 357).
If you have time, read the excerpts from Crucial Conversations
practice of dialectic
Write a short dialogue in which you differentiate one of the pairs of words on pages 129 and 130. If none of them appeal to you, choose your own pair of similar but ultimately different words.
Rubric: Graded out of 100. Worth 5% of final grade. Fifteen points deducted for choosing to differentiate "alone" from "lonely" -- it's too easy. Two points subtracted for each grammar, punctuation, diction error.