Compare And Contrast Essay

Comparison/Contrast College writing has numerous aspects. Successful College Writing by Kathleen T. McWhorter does well in covering many of those aspects. Consisting of a good deal of example essays, Successful College Writing helps students learn about the different parts of making a quality formal essay. Some of the example essays in the book work hand-in-hand in getting points across. Two that work well together are Dearly Disconnected by Ian Frazier and Is Sharing Files Online Killing Music? by Jonathan Adamczak. Both display how to write about topics like change. Since the two essays have similar writing styles and topics, it would do a student well to review them. Dearly Disconnected is a short piece taken from the perspective of a man who values pay phones. He has noticed how phones and people have changed through the introduction and evolution of the cellphone. Is Sharing Files Online Killing Music? is a cause-and-effect essay that talks about how the music industry and its clients have changed with the introduction and evolution of online files. Even though Dearly Disconnected would be identified as a comparison/contrast essay, the narrator notes some issues that have a cause-and-effect style. For instance, in the ninth paragraph of Dearly Disconnected, the narrator is

After all, as previously explained, one is about change of phones and people’s attitudes toward them, and the other is about changes in the music industry. While both essays shine light on different subjects, they also differ with how they express change. Is Sharing Files Online Killing Music? is telling the reader exactly what things changed, using evidence, and what their outcomes were. On the other hand, Dearly Disconnected has the narrator provide personal experiences that paint comparisons and contrasts of the payphone versus the