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Mastering Comparison-Contrast Essays: Strategies and Tips for Persuasive Writing

Learn to craft compelling compare/contrast essays with helpful strategies, focusing on thesis, evidence, and organization. Practice with topics like bilingual services or socialized medicine to refine your skills. Get ready for peer editing and scoring guidelines. Embrace your creativity with a horror fiction detour.

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Mastering Comparison-Contrast Essays: Strategies and Tips for Persuasive Writing

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  1. Bell Vocabulary 9.1 • perspicacity n. Acuteness or discernment • pertinacious adj. Persistent or unyielding • pervade v. To pass or spread through every part

  2. Week 10 Comparison-Contrast Chapter 16

  3. Purpose • Choosing a subject • Your personal opinions on the subject *** • Evidence? • Making decisions • Convincing your reader • Consider your audience

  4. Helpful strategies • Subjects must have both similarities and differences • Stay focused- Don’t just list characteristics- explain significance • Strong thesis- specific points • Organization- • One side at a time • Point by point • transitions

  5. Example and discussion • Page 367 “the Ugly Truth About Beauty” • Focus on the thesis and Cause/effect examples as well as his method of organization.

  6. Essay practice- Choose a topic • A “how to” guide for studying • A two career family versus a one career family • Two approaches to parenting • bilingual services • Socialized medicine

  7. Start writing! • Basic outline! • Introduction and body paragraphs by the end of the hour. • Be prepared to peer edit tomorrow!

  8. Bell Vocabulary 9.2 • pestilence n. A raging epidemic. • pestilent adj. Having a malign influence or effect • petulant adj. Displaying impatience

  9. Turn in by end of class: Draft +Peer edit • 2peers- include name • One paragraph each • Must be attached to your draft

  10. Scoring- 10 pts • Thesis- no three prong – 1pt • Compare/contrast equally addressed- 2 pts • Evidence to support statements- 2 pts • 2 different relevant comparisons- 1 pt • Analyzes 2+ reasons for similarity or difference- 1pt • Outline – 1pt • Peer edits- 2pts

  11. Bell Vocabulary 9.3 • picayune adj. Of small value • pique v. To excite a slight degree of anger in • platitude n. A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace

  12. Bell Vocabulary 9.4 • poignancy n. Severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief. • polemics n. The art of controversy or disputation • portent n. Anything that indicates what is to happen

  13. Final draft • Write your final draft of your compare/contrast essay. • Anyone who attempts to turn in a weak copy of their first draft will not receive credit beyond a D.

  14. Writer’s detour- MONSTERS! • You will create a short (2page) work of fiction in the genre of horror about one of the following topics. • Traffic cones • Telephone poles • Cactus • School lunch ladies

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