COMPARE AND CONTRAST ESSAY

COMPARE AND CONTRAST ESSAY

Write a 750-1,000-word essay ( 3 to 4 pages) that compares and/or contrasts Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” with Aung San Suu Kyi’s excerpt “From In Quest of Democracy.”
As you draft, revise, and finalize your essay, be sure that your paper focuses primarily on the ideas contained in the essays or the rhetorical structure of the essays. Consider in your introduction, as supporting evidence, or in your conclusion, the lives of the authors or the circumstances under which each work was written. These leaders’ biographical and cultural backgrounds helped form their philosophies and approaches. Consider how the two authors’ ideas remain central in contemporary society.

Remember that adequate transition is VERY important in a comparison/contrast essay.

Make sure that you have a specific, significant thesis. Concentrate especially on the organization of your essay (Block or Point-by-Point organization

You are expected to use appropriate supporting quotes and document them using parenthetical citations in the text as well as include a properly structured works cited page.

You will need to include (and highlight) at least FIVE quotes or paraphrases from the readings AND an additional quote or paraphrase from one or more sources outside the textbook. Be extra diligent about correctijvzng any plagiarism errors before submitting