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Expository Writing: Comparison and Contrast * Definition of Comparison Contrast Warm-up activities Basic Features Contents Steps to Write a comparative/ contrast essay Warm-up activity Please find out the similarities and differences in the following pictures: A B If you are figuring out the similarities, you are making a comparison of these two pictures. If you are figuring out the differences, you are making a contrast of these two pictures. Comparison Contrast Definition Comparison and contrast is a method used by writers to bring together two subjects in order to analyze their similarities and differences or highlight the essential characteristics of one or more subjects. Comparison Contrast Select your topics Set your purpose Organize your ideas Signal words and typical sentence patterns Basic Features Page 79 Compare things that have something in common Purposes of Comparison and Contrast With comparison and contrast, the purpose is not just to point out similarities and differences or advantages and disadvantages, but to present information about something unfamiliar by comparing it with something familiar; to show the superiority of one thing by contrasting it with another; to show the similarities or differences of two things. Comparison of the Eye and a Camera Examples Live in the City or Live in the Country Typewriter Keyboard VS. Computer Keyboard Patterns Methods The subject –by-subject pattern (块式比较) to examine one thing thoroughly and then start the other Examples The point-by-point pattern (点式比较) to examine two things at the same time, discussing them point by point Examples The likeness-difference pattern （相同—差异比较） To put all the similarities together and all the differences together Examples Organize your ideas The subject–by-subject pattern Thesis statement: My hometown is quite different from what it used to be. Pattern: Subject A: point A1, pointA2,