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Paper #1 - Compare and Contrast

Topic Paper #1 - Compare and Contrast on the use of Paper vs. Plastic Bags

Subject: Students need to choose two subjects that have equally compelling similarities and differences. It should be subjects that the student has personal knowledge of. Students must have a balance of similarities and differences (meaning roughly half of your paper should be on similarities and half on differences - do not use the same points as a similarity and a difference).

Topics students CANNOTuse are:
Living in an apartment versus living in a house
Transportation in other countries versus transportation in the United States
Living in cities versus living in the country
Bicycles versus cars
Public versus private transportation
Soccer versus football
Summer and winter (or any two seasons)
Childhood and adulthood
High school and college

Sources of information: Strongly discouraged. If you choose to use other outside sources, you MUST cite the sources using in-text citation ANDa works cited page (again, with borrowed language being contained within "quotation marks"). Not doing so will be considered plagiarism and an automatic F on the paper.

Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to inform an audience that has little to no knowledge of the topics chosen. A compare and contrast paper looks at the similarities and differences of two subjects.

Audience: Your audience is an academic audience. While that includes your peers (classmates) and your instructor, there are other expectations an academic audience has of a college level paper (proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, formal tone, level of complexity).

Length and document style: The minimum length requirement for this paper is 3 full pages. Maximum length of this paper is 6 full pages (do not exceed). Going over or under length requirement will result in a grade penalty of ten points. Students will use MLA format for this paper. A works cited page (if included)does not count towards minimum length requirement.