Dialogue Essay
This essay allows you to present two opposing or alternate positions as answers to your inquiry research question. As a writer, you are going to do this in the voices and characters of two (only two) people you create.
First think about the positions themselves if your inquiry research question involves a question about whether to vaccinate young children, one character will support vaccination and the other character will oppose it.
If your research question asks if gun control measures really reduce crime and make society safer, one character will argue that they do, and one character will argue that they dont.
If your research question asks about the best way to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, one character may argue for more investment in renewable energy (solar, wind) and the other character may argue for conservation and efficiency.
Your topic may not seem to lend itself easily to forming two clearly opposing positons, but whatever your question, there are different answers, and your characters in this dialogue must present different answers to your research question.
Now think about the characters these will be two people who could reasonably be expected to find themselves having a debate, and you will place them in a realistic situation where we can believe they would find themselves. You should spend some time writing about these people in the introduction: who are they? What do they value? The opening paragraph of this essay will establish the characters and settings for this dialogue. Do not describe their positions here; let their words within the dialogue do that for you.
Essential Points
Both characters in the dialogue must present a sound, reasonable, and well-supported position. You may not have one character clearly win this debate, so you will need to read your sources from your Annotated Bibliography carefully to make a good case on either side of the question. This is essential for you to move on to a good argument of your position.
Since you will NOT be citing/documenting this document paper, it is essential that you absorb the basics of the two positions and create a strong summary/synthesis of what you have read. This assignment will reveal quickly if you have come to an understanding of the basic positions or views in the debate. Also, as a realistic dialogue, your characters will not be using extremely specific details of the kind that will appear later in your research essay, but they should have some facts and examples to support your views.
The characters need to speak like themselves. This means that some liberties with vocabulary are allowed. If someone would be likely to use informal language, a dialect or slang, that is fine in this essay. However, this does not mean that you can disregard the rules of grammar and mechanics. You are presenting a spoken dialogue, but you are presenting it in writing, and readers need to be able to follow this as they would any written language.
Format/Organization
Begin with an introductory paragraph that introduces the problem and the two characters who will be presenting their solutions to the problem. Explain who these characters are, why they are interested in this problem and what they value.
Allow each character to speak in a script format. One character speaks, and then the other character responds to what was said. You may want to organize this section on the major findings of your research. If your research question asked about whether to vaccinate children, your characters might discuss the advantages and disadvantages or vaccinations, opting out of vaccinations, school policies, public health concerns, alternatives to vaccinations, etc. Allow your research to create your script.
You dont need a conclusion. End the conversation between the characters when you feel that you have presented both sides equally and the characters can walk away from this conversation feeling like their views have been well argued.
Partly because of this format and largely because you are presenting two reasonably developed positions in argument, this essay will most likely be close to 4 pages. If you find that you have only written 2 pages, look for ways to further develop the dialogue. If you find yourself wanting to write much more than 4 pages, present only the major arguments and save the smaller details for your research essay.
Use APA format for this essay. This should include a title page (use your research question as your title), and sections labeled with headers. A Reference page is not necessary because you will not be quoting or citing anything. Your Annotated Bibliography serves as a list of your sources for this essay.
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