English 101/Dr. Smith
In-class Rough Draft of Essay #2 (Comparison/Contrast)
Directions: Use all the information you collected from your own answers to questions given as homework, your partner’s answers to questions given, and your viewing of your movie. Write a Rough Draft of a comparison/contrast essay today in class by choosing an audience from the list below and one or more purposes from the list below. Make sure your entire essay is geared to the audience you choose and that everything you include is geared towards the purpose(s) of the paper; also make sure that I will be able to recognize who your audience is. Be creative. Biggest hint: DO NOT WRITE A PLOT SUMMARY FOR THE ENTIRE PAPER. Use a short plot summary in the introduction (with information like the movie’s name, the director, the actors, etc.) to lead us into a clear thesis (argument) and your blueprint of the points of development. Specific examples/descriptions of things from the movie should be used to support your argument and only for that. The comparison/contrast part of this essay comes from comparing/contrasting your views with those of your partner.
Your Audience:
readers of the Tech Talk (your partner’s audience would be readers of The Senior Citizen News or The New York Times or The Christian Science Monitor or some other newspaper that would have a very different type of audience)
viewers of MTV who are watching a movie review show (your partner’s audience would be viewers of a review show on The Family Channel or the PBS Evening News or VH1 or some other channel that would have a very different type of audience)
readers of Time or Newsweek magazine (your partner’s audience would be readers of YM or GQ or 17 or Details or any other magazine that would have a very different type of audience)
Purpose:
To entertain
To persuade
To inform
To sway opinion
To show that your opinion is more appropriate than your partner’s
USE THE SPACE BELOW TO DRAFT A SHORT OUTLINE TO HELP YOU: