The essay needs to be
at least two full pages following the MLA formatting guidelines of 1-inch
margins, double spacing between lines, Times New Roman 12 type.
Pick any of the three topics (Or a topic you’re
more familiar with):
1.
Psychologist
vs psychiatrist
2.
iOS or android
3.
E-learning vs Classroom Learning
Instructions:
Compare and Contrast
Essay Assignment
The purpose of the Compare and
Contrast Assignment is to take two topics of your own choice and write a 2
full-page Compare and Contrast Essay using the organization techniques
(Topic-by-Topic or Item-by-Item) *I’ve added an attachment for the unit
reading*
Here are the details:
1. Choose two topics of your
choice to compare and contrast. You are not required to do any research for
this essay, so this assignment encourages you to pick topics you know about so
that you can use your own knowledge to build the content of the essay. Below,
there will be some examples of compare and contrast topics, but you may pick
your own. Ask your instructor if you have difficulty in finding topics.
2. When you choose your
topics, spend some time brainstorming to find three items you can compare
between the two topics. The example here is how in the Unit 4 lecture notes we
found the items of Cost, Size and Teachers for our Community College and
University essay. Again, the items you choose will be your decision about what
you would like your essay to focus on. Use your judgment of what you feel is
most important to discuss between the two topics.
3. Decide whether to use the
Topic-by-Topic pattern or the Item-by-Item pattern. Either pattern is valid, so
use the one you are most comfortable with. When you decide on your pattern,
create an Outline as we did in the Unit 4 notes for Community Colleges and
Universities.
4. Be sure that your essay has
an introduction that has the four points listed in the lecture notes, not
necessarily in the order given in the notes: Topic, Thesis, Attention Grabber,
Signposting. (Note, if you decide to write the essay inductively by not having
the thesis in the introduction but in the conclusion, that is acceptable, so in
place of the thesis in the introduction, you may ask a question and/or explain
the purpose of the essay).
5. Be sure to have a conclusion
where you evaluate and analyze the topics. This conclusion could be more than
one paragraph, and you will likely develop it after writing all the other
points of the essay. Part 3 of the Unit 4 notes show how the essay evaluated
and analyzed the two types of schools to question the saying “you get what
you pay for.”
6. Include a title for the essay.
