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COMPARISON-AND-CONTRAST NARRATIVE WRITING • Comparison narrative illustrates how two or more people are similar. • Contrast illustrates how two or more people are different. • In most academic writing, the two are combined to analyze. • In essence, you will be creating an extended analogy. • An analogy explains one thing by comparing/contrasting it to a more familiar thing. THESIS • Identify not only the people being compared and contrasted, but also the overall point you are making by doing so. In other words, what is your message? • Also indicate if you will focus on merely the similarities or differences, or both. • What general statement could you make about yourself and the person you chose to compare yourself to? THESIS Whether your paper focuses primarily on difference or similarity, you need to make the relationship between A and B clear in your thesis. Your introduction consists of a frame of reference, grounds for comparison, and thesis statement. ORGANIZATIONAL SCHEME The two basic ways to organize the body of your paper is in a person-by-person method, where you discuss all of A, then all of B, or in a point-by-point (feature-by-feature) method, where you alternate points about A with comparable points about B. Ex. (Person-by-Person) Talk first about yourself, then discuss your other student. Ex. (Point-by-Point) Talk briefly about yourself and then connect the other student similarly or differently to the argument. Then repeat this again. TRANSITIONAL PHRASES To Compare Similarly, likewise, in like fashion, in like manner, analogous to, comparatively, accordingly, in the same way, comparative to, as, also, in conjunction with this TRANSITIONAL PHRASES To Contrast On the contrary, contrarily, notwithstanding, but, however, nevertheless, in spite of, in contrast, yet, on one hand, on the other hand, rather, or, nor, conversely, at the same time, while this may be true OUTLINE I. Introduction A. Frame of Reference B. Grounds for Comparison C. Thesis
