UMUC--Compare and Contrast Paper

Writing Assignment #2: Comparison-Contrast Analysis Writing assignment #2 will be an essay in which you compare and contrast two objects, concepts, or ideas.

You are encouraged to use your field of study to help in generating a topic for this essay. Some sample topics are listed below:

If you are majoring in one of the Sciences programs in our SCIP unit, you might be majoring in one of the following: environmental management, biotechnology, laboratory management, social science, gerontology, psychology, or political science

You might write a comparison-contrast essay on one of the following:

• green and non-green buildings

• two processes in building sustainable communities

• two countries’ approaches to a particular environmental issue

• archaeal viruses and bacterial viruses

• two gene lists in a particular animal community

• descriptive and prescriptive discriminant analysis in the social sciences

• two views of a particular field of study in the social sciences

• two methods of performance appraisal for an employee

• gender differences in a particular psychological phenomenon

• two frailty models

• two cultures’ methods or attitudes toward caring for the elderly

If you are majoring in one of the disciplines in our Computer Information Systems and Technology (CITE) unit, you might be majoring in one of the following: computer networks and security, computer science, cybersecurity, digital media and web technology, or information systems management

You might write a comparison-contrast essay on one of the following:

• two cultures’ views on project management and success in a software project

• SQL and QBE

• viewing text on a computer screen and viewing text in hardcopy

• online and face-to-face classes

• modern terrorism practices and modern cyberterrorism practices

• reading traditional books and reading e-books

• two watermarking techniques

• digital and traditional drawing

• two countries’ approaches to an information systems management issue

If you are majoring in one of the disciplines in our Communication, Arts, and Humanities (COMM) unit, you might be majoring in one of the following: communication studies and professional writing, East Asian studies, English, graphic communication, history, humanities, or a foreign language such as Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese or Spanish.

You might write a comparison-contrast essay on one of the following:

• two communication theories

• two speeches given to two different audiences

• two countries’ approaches to corporate behavior in a particular industry

• two views of a particular historical event

• two reviews of a particular piece of literature or movie

• the verb system in English compared to that of another language