Writing Academic English 4th Edition

POLITICALSCIENCE

AMERICANLITERATURE

BUSINESS

Comparison/ContrastEssal's..

Pre-Columbianhieroglyphs,Mexico

Inacomparison/contrastessay,youexplainthesimilaritiesandthedifferences

betweentwoitems.Comparisonandcontrastis a verycommonpatterninmostaca-

demicfields.It isalsoa commontypeofessaytestquestion.Youmightencounter

questionssuchasthese:

ComparetheformsofgovernmentofGreatBritainandtheUnitedStates.

ComparethecharactersofUncleMelikandhisnephewinWilliamSaroyan's

shortstory"ThePomegranateTrees."

Compareandcontrastmethodsforpromotinga newbusiness,product,

orservice.

Asyoureadthefollowingmodelessay,studyitsorganization.

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