Compare and Contrast Essay

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Compare and Contrast Essay
Presented by Ellie Belcher
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What does it mean to ?

• Compare

similarities

• Contrast

differences
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What kinds of things do we compare and contrast
in our daily lives?
Clothing
Literature
Restaurants
Height
Music
Drinks
What other things do we compare/contrast?
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Why do we compare and contrast things?

• To decide if we like that object

• To determine if we want to buy it

• To figure out if we want to eat there

Why else????
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Why do we compare and contrast literature?

• Look for similar themes

• Make comparisons to our own lives

• Learn life lessons

• Learn about other perspectives

• Understand differences and similarities that
  lead to self understanding, tolerance, acceptance

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What features can we use to compare and contrast
the wooden spoon
and the spaghetti spoon?
Features
Function/Use
Weight
Material
Shape
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Venn Diagram
Wooden Spoon
Spaghetti Spoon

• metal plastic

• wood

• shallow scoop

• used in cooking

• deep scoop

• light

• a little heavy

• scoop sauce

• scoop spaghetti

Features material, shape, weight, use
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Two Ways to Write a Compare and Contrast Essay

• Block Method
• Point by- Point Method

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Block Method

• Introduction
• II. First item A. First point about this item
  B. Second point about this item C. Third point
  about this item
• III. Second item A. First point about this item
  B. Second point about this item C. Third point
  about this item
• IV. Conclusion

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Point
- By
- Point Method

• Introduction
• II. First point A. Explanation of how this point
  relates to the first item B. Explanation of how
  this point relates to the second item
• III. Second point A. Explanation of how this
  point relates to the first item B. Explanation
  of how this point relates to the second item
• IV. Third point A. Explanation of how this point
  relates to the first item B. Explanation of how
  this point relates to the second item
• V. Conclusion

Key words
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Key words to express Comparison
like similar as same in the
same way too both most important have
in common the same as similarly
as well as
Key words to express Contrast
although yet whereas however
but while differ instead
unless unlike on the contrary
contrary to even though on the other
hand the reverse
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Cell phone
Regular phone
Group 1
Group 2
Radio
Ipod
Directions In the groups I assigned, complete
the Venn diagram for the two objects. Remember to
list the features you are comparing in the
diagram.
Truck
Car
Laptop
Home PC
Group 4
Group 3