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Compare and Contrast Essay.

For this essay you are allowed to choose your own topic. Make sure that your subjects are worth comparing and that you can adequately cover the topic in the allotted page limit. For example, you wouldn’t try to compare and contrast the causes of WWI and WWII in a two to three-page paper.

Things to remember:

Your essay must be two and a half to three pages long.

Your essay must an evaluative approach

Make sure you take advantage of the technique of parallelism

You must include at least two outside sources: one from online database, one from a book, newspaper, or magazine.

You must be including a bibliography written in MLA format.

5 or less use of the “to be” verb