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Comparing Texts EXAMPLES

The document outlines how to effectively compare texts by linking their similarities and differences throughout the analysis. It emphasizes the importance of discussing both texts together rather than separately, focusing on aspects like tone, language, structure, and reader response. Additionally, it provides examples and sentence starters to aid in making comparative points and supporting them with evidence.

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Comparing Texts EXAMPLES

The document outlines how to effectively compare texts by linking their similarities and differences throughout the analysis. It emphasizes the importance of discussing both texts together rather than separately, focusing on aspects like tone, language, structure, and reader response. Additionally, it provides examples and sentence starters to aid in making comparative points and supporting them with evidence.

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How to compare texts

Comparing involves directly linking texts through their similarities and differences. It is important to
move equally between the two texts, and write about them together, not separately.

When you compare texts, it’s important to talk about ​both texts​ all the way through. ​Don’t​ write all
about one text, then all about the other.

Main points contrasting and/or comparing the two texts, supported by details. These could include
points on: ​tone, language choices/literary devices, structure and reader’s response.

In a paragraph, make sure you mention ​both​, even if a point is mostly about one of them.

Sentence starters
Some key phrases to use when you compare texts.

When comparing texts, you are first making a point about two different texts, then backing up
ideas with evidence and explaining each idea. Then using a linking statement, you can connect
the two ideas together.

EXAMPLES:

Identify ​two similar ideas​ that are in ​both ​Text A and Text B.

1) ​Both t​ exts show that traffic noise has a ​harmful effect on our well-being​.

​ ext B​ uses ​people’s statements


Text A​ ​uses ​facts and statistics​ as evidence. ​Whereas T
as quotations​ to present this idea (evidence).

2) ​Both t​ exts show that traffic noise is a ​growing concern​ for the residents of large cities.

Text A​ uses ​emotive vocabulary​, such as ​‘’increasingly worried’’,​ ​‘’drastically


worsening’​’. ​In contrast​, ​Text B​ uses ​rhetorical questions​ to convey that message to the
reader.

Identify ​one ​difference in the texts. Refer to both documents.

Text A and Text B ​differ ​in terms of ​format​.

In ​Text A,​ the writer reports ​governments' findings, so the format is a report.​ ​However​, in
Text B​, the issue is being discussed by the ​local community groups, so it is an article.

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