Week 10 For some writing situations comparison and...

Week 10 For some writing situations comparison and contrast is a basic strategy. Chances are that we will confront many test questions and essay assignments asking us to compare (likeness) and/or contrast (difference) two persons, places, or things (texts, theories, scientific processes, and so on). "Classic" compare-and-contrast papers, in which you weight A and B equally, may be about two similar things that have crucial differences (two pesticides with different effects on the environment) or two similar things that have crucial differences, yet turn out to have surprising commonalities (two politicians with vastly different world views who voice unexpectedly similar perspectives on sexual harassment). Your introduction will include your frame of reference, grounds for comparison, and thesis. There are two basic ways to organize the body of your paper. In text-by-text (block), you discuss all of A, then all of B. In point-by-point, you alternate points about A with comparable points about B. But no matter which organizational scheme you choose, you need not give equal time to similarities and differences. In fact, your paper will be more interesting if you get to the heart of your argument as quickly as possible. Thus, a paper on two evolutionary theorists' different interpretations of specific archaeological findings might have as few as two or three sentences in the introduction on similarities and at most a paragraph or two to set up the contrast between the theorists' positions. The rest of the paper, whether organized text- by-text or point-by-point, will focus on the two theorists' differences. Now choose one of the following topics and develop it into an essay of no less than 200 words. 1. Online Learning & Classroom Learning. 2. Living on Campus & Living off Campus.