Comparative Essay Outline
Comparative Essay – Step By Step
STEP 1 - Diagnosis • Read the Question and break it down in for what it is asking • In the Margin, determine all of the information that you know about it o Start from broad to specific (time period, location, concepts, events, etc. . .)
STEP 2 - Organization and Planning • Find three topics that you can group together into paragraphs • Plan out your essay into a brief skeleton that you can draw upon as you write
STEP 3 - Creation • Write your essay following the point structure below and paying attention to the examples.
POINT 1 - Thesis • If you don’t have one you can’t gain this point or point #3 for supporting your thesis o Consider the thesis to be the essence of the paper, …show more content…
▪ For Example: “The Haitian Slaves were worked in the demanding sugar market in a foreign continent without a demographic representation that allowed for stable familial ties that had been a strong part of their culture, without the widespread allowances to have families the choice was clear, “rebel now and maybe die, or be worked to death slowly”. While Russian Serfs were allowed few more rights than a slave, they were bound to the land the worked for their elite Boyar ‘Little-Princes’ while the influences of the enlightenment and liberalization of Western Europe had long since freed their equals to the west. As the wars of their absolutist Czars brought Russians into contact with western ideas it was only a matter of time that the lower classes would demand a change. Thus the regimes dominating these two classes created a ‘powder …show more content…
The basic core of a 0-2 Points |
|issues or themes specified) |score of 7 must be achieved |
| |before a student can earn expanded |
|2. Addresses all parts of the 2 Points |core points. |
|of the question, though not | |
|necessarily evenly or thoroughly. |Examples: |
| |Has a clear, analytical, and comprehensive thesis |
|(Addresses most parts of the (1) |Addresses all parts of the question (as relevant): comparisons, |
|question: for example, deals with |chronology, causation, connections, themes, interactions,
STEP 1 - Diagnosis • Read the Question and break it down in for what it is asking • In the Margin, determine all of the information that you know about it o Start from broad to specific (time period, location, concepts, events, etc. . .)
STEP 2 - Organization and Planning • Find three topics that you can group together into paragraphs • Plan out your essay into a brief skeleton that you can draw upon as you write
STEP 3 - Creation • Write your essay following the point structure below and paying attention to the examples.
POINT 1 - Thesis • If you don’t have one you can’t gain this point or point #3 for supporting your thesis o Consider the thesis to be the essence of the paper, …show more content…
▪ For Example: “The Haitian Slaves were worked in the demanding sugar market in a foreign continent without a demographic representation that allowed for stable familial ties that had been a strong part of their culture, without the widespread allowances to have families the choice was clear, “rebel now and maybe die, or be worked to death slowly”. While Russian Serfs were allowed few more rights than a slave, they were bound to the land the worked for their elite Boyar ‘Little-Princes’ while the influences of the enlightenment and liberalization of Western Europe had long since freed their equals to the west. As the wars of their absolutist Czars brought Russians into contact with western ideas it was only a matter of time that the lower classes would demand a change. Thus the regimes dominating these two classes created a ‘powder …show more content…
The basic core of a 0-2 Points |
|issues or themes specified) |score of 7 must be achieved |
| |before a student can earn expanded |
|2. Addresses all parts of the 2 Points |core points. |
|of the question, though not | |
|necessarily evenly or thoroughly. |Examples: |
| |Has a clear, analytical, and comprehensive thesis |
|(Addresses most parts of the (1) |Addresses all parts of the question (as relevant): comparisons, |
|question: for example, deals with |chronology, causation, connections, themes, interactions,