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| Analyze how two related subjects are similar or different. |
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| Are helpful for brainstorming |
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| Methods for Comparison Essays |
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| Point by Point Method and Block Method |
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| Who is the author, and what are their qualifications? |
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| Questions to ask about sources |
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| Who is the publisher? Was the work reviewed by others before publication? |
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| Questions to ask about sources |
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| Is this work relevant to my topic? |
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| Questions to ask about sources |
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| What is the intended purpose of this work? |
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| Questions to ask about sources |
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| How reliable are the sources used for this work? |
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| Questions to ask about sources |
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| When was this work published? Is the information still accurate? |
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| Questions to ask about sources |
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| Is this work objective (unbiased) or subjective (biased)? |
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| Questions to ask about sources |
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| Does this work include first hand information? |
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| Questions to ask about sources |
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Relevance
Authority
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Appearance
Reason for writing |
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| Using someone else’s ideas without giving them proper credit |
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| Quoting directly from a source word-for-word |
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| Taking the main points from a large body of text and rewriting them with much less text |
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| Combining information from two or more sources and blending them smoothly into your paragraph using your own words |
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| Same idea but with different words, roughly the same amount of text |
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| A short written composition on one subject that expresses the views of the writer |
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| First sentence of an essay, designed to grab the reader’s attention |
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| Reasons given in the thesis statement that provides support for the writer’s thesis statement |
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| First sentence of every body paragraph; introduces what the paragraph is about and relates back to thesis statement |
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| 3 important things to consider when writing an essay |
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| Where does the action take place |
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| The central idea, moral, or “Why?” of the story |
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| The emotional response a writer invokes with the story (Built with descriptive language) |
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