No two scholars seem to agree on exactly how many books he wrote, but the number is above ninety, and his output, in addition to social-protest and historical novels, includes plays, screenplays, tracts, journalistic exposés, didactic dialogues, instructional manuals, and autobiographies.
This strain is distinct enough from the accounts of morality in the more didactic dialogues that it has been called Socratic, as opposed to Platonic, and associated with the historical personage's own views.
He wrote satirical poems and epigrams, but more important are his prose works, especially Żywot człowieka poczciwego (1568; "Life of a Decent Man"), a presentation of an ideal nobleman, and a didactic dialogue, Krótka rozprawa między trzemi osobami panem, wójtem a plebanem (1543; "A Short Discourse Between the Squire, the Bailiff, and the Parson").
And once the urge to explain has been conquered, other hazards await: overuse of research (male action writers are especially prone wherever guns are involved), overt signposting for readers assumed to be too dim to make the necessary connections (they are not) and didactic dialogue.
The research focuses on the way in which specific and dedicated blogs can be used as a tool for teaching and a channel of didactic dialogue with students, in relation to the activity of the Architecture Design Studio at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Timisoara.
These dialogues are didactic, and conclusive in tone, e.g., Republic, Phaedo, Phaedrus, and Philebus.
Creangă's contribution to literature also covers a series of didactic fables written as lively dialogues, among them "The Needle and the Sledge Hammer", in which the objects of traditional metalworking scold the byproducts of their work for having forgotten their lowly origin.
Adapting Jim Grimsley's novel, James Bolton directs his small cast (including Thomas Jay Ryan and Diana Scarwid as Nathan's parents) through wooden dialogue and the didactic proddings of Richard Buckner's guitar score.
The dialogue is bluntly didactic, with characters telling one another things they would already know entirely for the benefit of the audience.
Some 400 years later there came into being four lives of Jesus, the profound religious significance of which has inevitably obscured their originality their homely detail, anecdotes, and dialogue that, though didactic in purpose, also evoke a time and a personality.
The Suttanipāta collection of the Buddhist canon, composed in a more formal style, contains 55 narrative and didactic poems, in the form of dialogues and ballads; they are composed in a metre akin to the Sanskrit śloka.
