Compare and contrast essay

Message from the professor:

Getting Started On A Comparison and Contrast Essay

1. Limit your comparison and/or contrast to subjects that can be adequately developed in a paragraph or an essay.
2. Make sure that the subjects you are comparing and/or contrasting have some basic similarities or differences.
3. Decide why each point of comparison or contrast is important.
4. Decide what points of comparison or contrast are the most important or the most revealing.
5. Decide which of the three patterns of comparison and contrast best fits your purpose: subject by subject, point by point, or mixed.
6. Remember to make clear to your reader when you are switching from one subject to another or from one point of comparison or contrast to another. Use clear transitions.

Professors instructions:

Surf the web to find two sites which are promoting similar products. For example, you might look at the web sites for Chevrolet and Jaguar, or for Hershey’s and Godiva chocolates, or for Blue Mountain Electronic Greeting cards and 123 electronic greeting cards.

Now organize a 500 word comparison/contrast essay in which you provide a careful analysis of the qualities of the two web sites. Concentrate on the appearance, content, and ease of use of the web sites themselves, NOT just on the products.

Spend a great deal of time organizing your paper. Decide what your focus will be. Notice all the details on the web site. Decide which pattern of organization you will use. Decide which elements of the web sites will be the basis for your comparison. You may conclude your paper by suggesting that one site is better than the other, or you may leave your personal preference unknown to the reader. Above all, try to avoid phrases like “I like” or any other intrusion of “I” in the essay.

Remember that you cannot say everything about this topic. You will have to focus, to narrow your thoughts, to use only those ideas which will help you make your point and no more. Throw out the ideas which do not fit into your prewriting plan.

Please provide the two URL’s for the product sites (web addresses) underneath the title to your paper so that I can take a look at them as well.

MY INSTRUCTIONS:

This essay should be written from a female perspective, preferably by a female if possible. The websites chosen for the compare and contrast essay are www.amazon.com -vs- www.diapers.com. The items of focus are BABY SUPPLIES. I will be attaching sources provided by the professor for this assignment.