Type of Introduction for Comparing-Contrast Essay : 30 July 2012

 Happy Monday day!!

       Comparing-Contrast Essay is the topic that Miss Zu taught us today.. When we want to make a decision about something that we not sure, we use comparing-contrast essay. In your everyday life,  you  must have to make a choose between two or more choices. For example to choose which one you would have for breakfast wether 'nasi lemak' or 'roti canai', which transport you would use, etc. In order to make a decision,  you  will consider the similarities and differences, and evaluate all the relevant aspects that concern the choices that  you  have to made. 

       Similarly, in a comparison-contrast essay, we need both similarities and differences between the two ideas or topics. When you want to compare the ideas, you use similarities whereas when you want to contrast, you will use the differences. We need to do something like this: 

                There is only one type of block pattern for comparing-contrast essay as shown below:

                                         BLOCK PATTERN

Introduction stating the thesis statement	Introductory paragraph
Difference 1, with topic sentence Difference 2, with topic sentence Difference 3, with topic sentence	Body paragraph
Conclusion summarizing the main ideas or restating the thesis statement	Concluding paragraph

        

          IMPORTANT!!
          
 In order to make your readers be able to understand your ideas better, you can use connecting words so that your essay more coherent. The table below shows language expressions that can be use for your essay.

Functions	Language expressions
To indicate similarities	and … also, just as, neither … nor, similarly, In the same way, as, both … and, likewise, the same as, In the same manner
To indicate differences	However, whereas, while, On the other hand, In contrast, but, In comparison, Another difference

      

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