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Brannan: A Writer's Workshop
A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays
Bob Brannan, Johnson County Community College
Explaining Similarities and Differences

Writing On and Offline

These writing prompts are followed by text boxes for your input. If you are working online and your instructor has given you the go-ahead, you can e-mail your work to him or her by clicking the "E-mail Your Answers" button. You can also e-mail a copy to yourself as a record of your work. If you are working offline, you will have to copy your answers (CTRL-C on most systems) and paste them (CTRL-V) into a text document to retain a record of your work.



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Directions: The New York Times online has a special learning section called "On This Day," which provides information about events that happened on the same date throughout history.

Visit this section then, choose one of the historical events described and read the accompanying article (or do a little research elsewhere about the event). Write an essay comparing and contrasting the events of that day with today.

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Directions: Visit this "shared-birthday" site and pick a famous person who shares a birthday with you. Do a bit of research on the famous person, if necessary. Then, write an essay comparing and contrasting that person with you.









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