When you compare things, you show their similarities; when you contrast things, you show their differences.
Your comparison and contrast essay must have a point or purpose to it. For example, you may wish to (a)
inform a reader, (b) provide new insight into something already familiar (c) persuade the reader to think or act
in a particular way (d) express feelings and relate experience and (e) entertain a reader.
Note
- Select your details with regard to your purpose.
- Balance your selection of details. Any point you make about one of your subjects should also be made about
the other. You may, however, vary the number of details you give. - Avoid self-evident statements
- Comparison and contrast may include other patterns of development—description, narration, process,
illustration. However, your dominant pattern must be comparison and contrast.
You may use either the Block method or the Point by Point method to develop your essay.
You may write the comparison and contrast essay on any one of the following topics:
Topics:
Two characters in a movie or a book
Check!!
Can you find the thesis statement for the essay?
What, if anything, holds your paragraphs together?
Did the contrast go back and forth, or did it develop one before it went to the other?
Does the conclusion grow out of the body of the essay?
The tv series is suits the compression is between Harvey specter and mike Ross
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