Comparison / Contrast
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Comparison shows similarities between persons, places, things, ideas, or
situations.
Contrast points out the differences between persons, places, things, ideas, or
situations.
Two Basic Methods for Organizing Comparison / Contrast
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1. If you let A and B stand for the two things (subjects) being compared, then
you can use the block method in which you tell all about A, then tell all
about B. Thus you discuss A in a block and B in a block.
2. If you let A and B stand for the two things (subjects) being compared, then
you compare them point by point. Every time you say something about
A, you also say something about B – right in the same sentence or in the
sentence immediately following.