Assignment: Comparison and Contrast Essay Instructions

Assignment Introductions
Comparison and Contrast Essay For this assignment, you are required to post in the Assignment Comparison and Contrast Essay and Discussion Area an essay of no more than 700 words and a 150–250 word response to another student's posted assignment. If you already have not done so, please familiarize yourself with the discussion forum tool.

The process is as follows:
Prepare an essay following the instructions below. Post your essay in the Assignment
Comparison and Contrast Essay and Discussion Area so your fellow students can offer helpful suggestions.
You must leave the assignment posted for a minimum of 10 calendar days. Post a 150–250 word response to one of the posted student assignments.

You may wish to comment on the ideas, organization, grammar or any other aspect of the assignment that would be helpful for your fellow student. Essay Topic This essay of no more than 700 words requires you to choose two stories from among those covered so far in Modules 1 to 5 and assigned in Module 6. You’re limited to the stories that you haven’t already written about in your last two essays. One of your challenges for Assignment 3 is to select two stories that are good matches for your chosen topic. You may wish to consult your Open Learning Faculty Member about your topic and short story choices. In the meantime, review the list of stories and strike out the two you chose for your previous essays.

Royal Beatings” by Alice Munro “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather “Death by Landscape” by Margaret Atwood “To Room Nineteen” by Doris Lessing “Great Falls” by Richard Ford “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” by D.H. Lawrence Note Add your response to your peer's essay to the bottom of your own when you submit your assignment. Comparison and Contrast Essay Topics Choose just one of the following topics: Using two stories, compare and contrast the protagonists’ isolation from the world and the people around them. Using two stories, compare and contrast the marital or romantic relationships presented.

Using two stories, compare and contrast the use of point of view. Using two stories, compare and contrast the presentation of selfishness. Using two stories, compare and contrast the parent/child relationship. Instructions Your essay should have three parts: an introductory paragraph, a body containing fully developed paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. Following is a general guide for what to include in each section of your essay. In your introductory paragraph: Introduce your chosen stories (with their full titles) and their authors. Identify clearly your essay topic—the subject of your comparison/contrast. Include a strong thesis statement on the comparison and contrast topic that indicates what a reader ultimately can learn from the comparison/contrast. Forecast the categories of the comparison and contrast that your essay will analyze in detail.

In your analysis in the body of your essay: Make effective use of topic sentences to identify the categories of comparison or contrast in your analysis. Support your comments with evidence (paraphrase and direct quotations) from your chosen stories. Explain the significance of each piece of evidence you present as it relates to your thesis. Contribute to your reader’ understanding of the two stories as a whole. In your concluding paragraph: Summarize how your analysis of the categories of comparison/contrast supports your thesis. Restate in different words the purpose of your comparison/contrast.

Note Quotations count toward the word length, but Works Cited items listed at the end do not. Submission Procedures As soon as you have completed an assignment, save your document on your computer and then send a copy to your Open Learning Faculty Member for marking. Be sure to include your name, the course code, assignment number, and the date of submission on the title page of your assignments, so they can be easily identified, and you get credit for all your work. Use headers in the body of your written assignments to make sure all components of your assignments are clearly identified (course code, your surname, assignment number, date [day, month, year]). Name your Assignment document as follows: course number_your surname_assignment number_date. For example.