Essay 2: Compare and Contrast
Norming Session: Wed, 11/18
Peer Review: Friday, 11/20
Final Drafts: Sunday 11/22
ASSIGNMENT:
You will analyze the writing of two essays we have read for our course, based on
our questions from the analysis think sheet. You will analyze their ideas using
the skills you’ve gleaned in discussion. Whose essay is better written to
express their ideas? With whom do you
agree more? Why?
General outline:
· Compare Rhetoric
· Compare Ideas
· Which is written
more effectively
Compare and Contrast Organization options:
For example: Jane Austen’s Heroine
Qualities, Sassy & Traditional
Elizabeth (P&P)
Emma (Emma)
· Paragraph 1
Elizabeth and Emma, Sassy
· Paragraph 2
Elizabeth and Emma, Traditional
OR
· Paragraph A
Elizabeth is sassy and traditional
· Paragraph B
Emma is sassy and traditional
For YOUR essays:
Option 1:
· Paragraph 1: Essay
1 Ideas and Rhetorical Critique (or Rhetorical and Ideas Critique)
Paragraph 2: Essay 2 Ideas and Rhetorical Critique (or Rhetorical and Ideas
Critique)
Paragraph 3: Discussion of the essay you feel is most successful and why
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Option 2:
· Paragraph 1:
Discuss Essay 1 and Essay 2 rhetorically (or ideas)
Paragraph 2: Discuss Essay 1 and Essay 2 ideas (or rhetorically)
Paragraph 3: Discussion of the essay you feel is most successful and why
EVALUATION
Essay 2: Compare and Contrast Evaluation
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Exceptional:
This element goes beyond what is expected.
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Proficient: This element completes the assignment
satisfactorily.
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Needs work: The response to this element is missing or
is seriously flawed.
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1.1
First Page Header:
MLA format, upper left, no shortcuts.
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1.2
Page number header, upper right.
Includes writer’s last name and page number.
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Preliminary MLA formatting: Times New Roman font, double-spaced, left
aligned.
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1.3
Title:
Interesting and unique.
Does the title forecast the issue or problem the
essay examines and make readers want to read on?
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1.4
Thesis.
Is the thesis complete and foreshadowing?
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1.5
Literary Elements Critique:
Clear, objective, analytic discussions of the rhetorical elements of both
essays.
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1.6
Ideas Critique:
Detailed analysis of the
writing of the ideas/purpose of both essays.
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1.7
Evaluation:
Careful consideration of which essay is more successful and why.
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1.8
Mechanics and Style:
Does the writer provide enough transitions to help the reader see how
points are connected?
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1.9
Detail and
Syntax
Are there enough Level
#1 examples to illustrate and support the writer’s ideas (facts, quotations,
statistics, anecdotes from his/her own experiences, etc)?
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1.10
Style:
Is there a sense of
voice in this writing? Is there a personality behind the writer, or, does
this read like textbook writing?
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1.11
Citations:
The writer introduces borrowed
words or ideas by using attributive tags. All borrowed words and facts are
noted with in-text citations with the page number.
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