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Second, dialectic has been the topical development of opposed arguments on controversial issues and the judgment of their relative strengths and weaknesses, usually in political and legal contexts, a two-dimensional form that was the counterpart of rhetorics in which verbal battles over competing probabilities in public institutions revealed distinct winners and losers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The discipline of writing studies is on the brink of developing a new relationship between dialectic and rhetoric, one in which dialectics and rhetorics mediate and negotiate different arguments and orientations that are engaged in any rhetorical situation. This new relationship consists of a three-dimensional hybrid art called \"dialectical rhetoric,\" whose method is based on five topoi: deconstruction, dialogue, identification, critique, and juxtaposition. 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