December 3, 2014 Comparative essay outline

Homework: Finish comparative essay outline

Bring BYOT for tomorrow if you plan on typing your rough draft / final paper.

ObjectiveI can evaluate patterns of organization in unfamiliar informational texts for the

purposes of comparing and contrasting texts.

Warm Up: Take out your completed Venn Diagram.

In your notes, write a paragraph in which you select one of the articles (write out the article name and author) and explain in 5-7 sentences why you would select this article to appear in

your newspaper over the other.

"Victims of Bullying Live with the Consequences" by Karen Kaplan

"Bullying in Schools" by Ron Banks

Let's take a look at these two articles...

You are a newspaper editor in charge of deciding which articles pertaining to bullying will appear in the local paper. To do this, you must analyze how different writers present information on the topic. Compare and contrast one writer’s presentation of the topic to that of the other. Pay close attention to each author’s use of text structure and elaboration techniques. Identify the central idea of each text and the ways they were developed. Write a comparative essay explaining how each writer used text structure and elaboration techniques to develop their central ideas.

Your assignment

"Victims of Bullying Live with the Consequences" by Karen Kaplan

"Bullying in Schools" by Ron Banks

Pattern of organization (text structure)

"Victims of Bullying Live with the Consequences" by Karen Kaplan

"Bullying in Schools" by Ron Banks

Elaboration techniques (how they support the main idea)

So today you will be taking information from your Venn Diagram and putting it into an outline that will help you start on the writing process for this comparative essay.

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Comparative essay outline

Paragraph One -IntroductionIntroduce your role as an editor and the article titles: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Thesis Statement (must contain BOTH article titles and your point/claim which is the result of your comparison) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Points of Comparison (reasons that support your point/claim – do not include elaboration)1 _____________________________________________________________2______________________________________________________________

Paragraph Two – Body ParagraphWrite 1st point of comparison as a topic sentence (It must contain both article titles and point of comparison#1)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Main idea of article 1: Text structure of article 1 2 Examples of how the author developed this pattern of organizationWhy you think this text structure was / was not effective Main idea of article 2: Text structure of article 22 Examples of how the author developed this pattern of organizationWhy you think this text structure was / was not effective

Paragraph Three - Body ParagraphWrite 2nd point of comparison as a topic sentence (It must contain both article titles and point of comparison#2)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Restate main idea of article 1 2 examples of the TYPE of elaboration techniques used and a specific example from the text for each of these Why you think this elaboration was / was not effectiveRestate main idea of article 2 2 examples of the TYPE of elaboration techniques used and a specific example from the text for each of these Why you think this elaboration was / was not effective

Paragraph Four - Concluding Paragraph (restate thesis claim/article choice) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Write your title – do not write Article One Versus Article Two – be more explicit and identify the type of writing, such as A Comparison of …., or something more creative that indicates the purpose of your comparison. _________________________________________