ELL4

Compare and Contrast Strategies:

• Chunking

Normal Introduction. Thesis will declare the result of the comparison.

Each body paragraph focuses on each specific thing being compared. If you are comparing apple and oranges, you have a paragraph on apples and a paragraph on oranges as body paragraphs.

• Slicing

Normal Introduction. Thesis will declare the result of the comparison.

Each body paragraph focuses on a specific aspect being compared, and discusses both things being compared in the same paragraph. For examples, if you were comparing apples and oranges, you might spend one body paragraph comparing the nutritional value of both apples and oranges.

Consider the following topic:

Compare and Contrast:

1. Being rich, or living in poverty?
2. Remote learning or classroom learning?