ReadWriteThink Comparison and Contrast Page

This is a very good web resource on Comparing and Contrasting. If you have read the book and would like more information on planning and organizing your paper, this is the place to go. We'll be reviewing the website in class this week.

Here is your Comparison and Contrast assignment:

Comparison and Contrast Essay
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Purpose: To inform a specific group of people about propaganda techniques used in two different types of commercials/ads targeted to them.
Audience: The people that the commercials/ads target.
Length: About 3- to 5-pages, double-spaced
For this assignment, you will compare and contrast the propaganda techniques used in two different types of advertisements or commercials. Your thesis sentence will be explain the ways each group of advertisements or commercials uses propaganda techniques to appeal to its audience(s) and bring these techniques to the attention of one target group.
Your body paragraphs will be devoted to explaining the similarities and/or differences in the propaganda techniques used. To develop your ideas, you may use block style, point-by-point comparison, or a combination of the two (so long as I can see you have an overall plan). Your support will come from the ads you have researched.
Please cite any resources you use according to the MLA guidelines. Papers that do not cite resources will be given a 0.0.
Please read your course outline for due dates.

If you have not yet picked out the ads you want to research, please spend some time doing so.