This Week: Comparison and Contrast Writing

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by Jason Esters12 views·Updated Jul 19, 2021
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  1. Hello. Good people.
  2. Now. I know you must be tired, you must be
  3. tired because that midterm was a doozy.
  4. And you guys have to finish those wonderful wonderful essay
  5. number two revisions.
  6. And I can't wait to start reading those today.
  7. Now this week we're going to be working on comparative
  8. analysis. This is gonna be our first class to actually
  9. begin working on analysis.
  10. And usually the first step that we take when we
  11. try to do analysis is by focusing on comparison and
  12. contrast writing.
  13. Now I'm sure you all have done comparison and contrast
  14. writing before in some capacity whether it be in grade
  15. school or maybe in other classes.
  16. But we're really gonna break down how comparison works really
  17. from the standpoint of analysis and how we build good
  18. comparison contrast writing in college.
  19. All right now comparison and contrast isn't the only thing
  20. that we're going to do.
  21. All right.
  22. We also have some other things on the agenda for
  23. this week.
  24. So coming out of the midterm, you need to know
  25. that your midterm grades are going to be posted tomorrow
  26. evening. Alright?
  27. So tomorrow evening you guys are gonna have your midterm
  28. grades and on Wednesday during my Wednesday lecture, I'm going
  29. to talk a little bit about the midterm grades and
  30. where we should go being in the mid point of
  31. the semester.
  32. Okay. So after your midterm grades, um we'll have that
  33. conversation. The other thing I wanted to let you know
  34. is that your essay number two grades will be posted
  35. on friday?
  36. Um It doesn't take me quite as long degrade the
  37. essay number two because you know, I have a good
  38. idea of where you were going and what you were
  39. doing and from the conferences that I had with you
  40. last week, we were able to talk a little bit
  41. about what you needed to do.
  42. So I can't wait to get those grades to you
  43. look for those grades to be posted on friday.
  44. So those are some clerical things that we want to
  45. make sure we take up.
  46. Well what are we gonna do in english?
  47. Uh oh 99 for the reading.
  48. Last week we started thinking about different types of articles
  49. and I'm going to continue that conversation.
  50. But one thing I love about comparison and contrast is
  51. that we can use our comparison contrast techniques to help
  52. us better understand and keyword synthesize what we read a
  53. little bit more uh easily.
  54. So in english or 99 what we're gonna do is
  55. we're gonna use comparison and contrast Trask techniques to actually
  56. begin to summarize the positions that different articles take.
  57. You know, it's not about just reading the article and
  58. then just telling me what the article says.
  59. It's also thinking about how that article or how that
  60. author is having a conversation with other articles and other
  61. authors. So we need to begin putting together those conversations
  62. in comparison.
  63. And contrast helps us to do that.
  64. Who's writing seems to lean towards similar positions, whose writing
  65. seems to offer divergent opinions.
  66. How do we talk about those in a very clear,
  67. concise way?
  68. How do we make it to flow?
  69. That's the conversation that we want to have because whatever
  70. we read, we want to do something with whatever we
  71. read. Okay.
  72. All right.
  73. So you can see I'm in beautiful garden space is
  74. not my usual porch, but I can't wait to get
  75. my hands into the garden, literally and metaphorically, because you're
  76. writing is also a garden that we need to cultivate,
  77. pull out some weeds so that we can get the
  78. good fruit to grow.
  79. Alright, so looking forward to that process this week.
  80. Hope to talk to you all soon.
  81. Have a good one.