our answer should be a thesis driven discussion of the role of ethics in your own rhetorical acts. Some issues you could consider*:

Did your thoughts, intentions/actions, and speech/rhetoric align?

How did your use of rhetoric affect the Other: did it “bring them into Being” as Bakhtin would argue? Or did your response deny their “existence?”

Did you use identification according to Burke?

Is it possible to be both a noble and evil lover in one rhetorical act?

Should/could ethics have played a greater role in the example you identify? Why or why not?

Do we have a responsibility with our “response-ability?”

Did you think of this rhetorical exchange as war or love? How did this affect your action?

Was heteroglossia a factor in your exchange?

*These questions are merely secondary suggestions. You do not need to and should not try to answer all of the questions. They are just examples of some ways to approach the prompt. Be sure to focus your main thesis on the prompt itself.

Remember: The purpose of this assignment is to get you to think through the material carefully. You SHOULD and you MUST reference text concepts(part 5 &6) to lend support for your argument and discussion of rhetoric and ethics, but this assignment is also designed to solicit your feelings on the topics we have covered.
Assignment parameters:
Typed, double spaced, 1-inch margins and 12 point font; No less than 3 pages(full pages), no more than 3 ½
No work cited or title page necessary, ONLY in-text citations from reader or class.