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College Writing Skills, Media Edition, 5/e
John Langan, Atlantic Community College

Comparison and Contrast

Learning Objectives


This chapter will give you practice in:

  • showing in writing how two things are similar (comparing) or different (contrasting) in order to help the reader understand and evaluate them more completely
  • analyzing comparison-and-contrast writing for its strengths and weaknesses