Comparison and Contrast Writing
Introduction: The opening line should be:
- a direct statement of fact
- a statement intended to startle the reader
- a question or a series of questions
- a quotation - short, fresh, personal
Introduce the reader to the world about which you will be writing.
- Introduce the topics to be compared.
- Thesis sentence (so what?)
Purpose of this essay:
- Two characters or situations that seem very different are actually quite
similar in that they reveal some larger human truth.
- Or, two characters or situations that seem very similar but are actually
quite different, once again, reveal some larger human truth.
- This would be the root of your thesis statement, the answer to : "So
what?"
Check the sample papers on
this site to see what has been done with a much different topic.
