Essay #2 – Compare and Contrast Essay (40 points) First Draft due date: Wednesday, March 30th
In a 400-500 word essay, compare and/or contrast an educational system in your country with the corresponding educational system in the United States. Please focus only on one system: the elementary school system, the high school system or the college system. Your essay can focus on similarities, differences or both. This essay will use the Point-by-Point organizational method. You must submit an outline for this assignment. Once I check to see if you are on the right track with your outline, you can start writing your first draft. You must submit your first draft to both the Assignments section and Turnitin. Please use the following advice when writing your paper. Please use only the points in bold mentioned below in your essay.
In your introduction, you need to include background information regarding the two educational systems you want to compare/contrast. This information should consist of two or three sentences.
Your thesis statement, the last sentence in your introduction, should state the three points of comparison: the relationship between student and teacher, the types of assignments students are given, and the importance of extracurricular activities.
You may choose to compare/contrast the elementary school systems in your country and the United States, the high school system in your country and the United States or the college system in your country and the United States. It is up to you to choose which system you want to focus on in your essay.
You must focus on only ONE system; in other words, you cannot write about similarities or differences in high school systems in one paragraph and then write about the similarities or differences in college in the next paragraph. Before you begin your essay, please send me a private message telling me which system you are going to focus on.
Each body paragraph will describe the similarities and differences in the three points I have mentioned above. For example, in the first paragraph, you will compare and contrast the relationship between the teacher and the student. If you start off with your description of the teacher/student relationship in your country, in the next two body paragraphs you will also start with describing what you have observed in your country first in regards to assignments and extracurricular activities.
In your conclusion, you should have some kind of reflective thought about the two systems. For example, you can state which system you think is better and why.
Before you start writing this essay, you should watch the videos I have posted in Module Week 7. You must show me an outline of the essay by Sunday, March 27th.
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