{"id":33946,"date":"2023-09-17T23:07:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T23:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/comparative-analysis-to-compare-and-contrast-the-main-ideas-of-two-authors-using-analysis\/"},"modified":"2023-09-17T23:07:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T23:07:15","slug":"comparative-analysis-to-compare-and-contrast-the-main-ideas-of-two-authors-using-analysis","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/comparative-analysis-to-compare-and-contrast-the-main-ideas-of-two-authors-using-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparative Analysis- To compare and contrast the main ideas of two authors using analysis."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Comparative Analysis<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Purpose:<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>To compare and contrast the main ideas of two authors using analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Audience:<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;professors and students who have *not* read the texts you are analyzing.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Begin this assignment by carefully reading and taking notes on the following two articles: 1) &#8220;Stop Googling. Let&#8217;s Talk.&#8221; by Sherry Turkle (located in the<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\" data-api-returntype=\"Page\" data-api-endpoint=\"https:\/\/online.macomb.edu\/api\/v1\/courses\/58470\/pages\/week-1-materials-please-review-all-materials\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Week 1 Materials<\/strong><\/a><\/span>), and 2) &#8220;Finding Time in the Age of Tiktok&#8221; by Jenny Odell (located in the<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\" data-api-returntype=\"Page\" data-api-endpoint=\"https:\/\/online.macomb.edu\/api\/v1\/courses\/58470\/pages\/week-3-materials-please-review-all-materials\">Week 3 Materials<\/a><\/strong><\/span>).<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>Make notes of what you think are the main ideas in each author&#8217;s text.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, begin a new document and add an MLA heading and a title for the assignment.&nbsp;Use your own original title! Please do not use the titles from the authors&#8217; texts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Using the analysis skills you learned in Week 2, write a comparative analysis of the two texts that demonstrates how these two authors are in conversation about one similar topic.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Identify the topic of the larger conversation to which both authors are contributing (HINT: Read the<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\" data-api-returntype=\"Page\" data-api-endpoint=\"https:\/\/online.macomb.edu\/api\/v1\/courses\/58470\/pages\/week-3-overview-texts-in-conversation\">Week 3 Overview<\/a><\/strong><\/span>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Compare the similarities between each author&#8217;s main ideas<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Explain contrasts (differences) between the authors&#8217; main ideas<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Use the resources in the<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\" data-api-returntype=\"Page\" data-api-endpoint=\"https:\/\/online.macomb.edu\/api\/v1\/courses\/58470\/pages\/week-3-materials-please-review-all-materials\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Week 3 Materials<\/strong><\/a><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>to help you write the comparative analysis<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Feel free to use paraphrases or *short* quotations from each text to illustrate the authors&#8217; ideas.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Organize your analysis into multiple paragraphs using a logical structure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Save your document as either a .doc, .docx, or .pdf file and submit through Canvas.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Guidelines<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Strive to meet all the goals described above<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Minimum 400 words<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">MLA Formatting<\/span>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">MLA heading in upper left corner<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Double-spaced lines<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Times New Roman,&nbsp;12 pt font<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">1&#8243; margins<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Left justified text (Title in center)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">MLA in-text and Works Cited citations<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Submit in .doc, .docx, or .pdf file formats<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comparative Analysis Purpose:&nbsp;To compare and contrast the main ideas of two authors using analysis. Audience:&nbsp;professors and students who have *not* read the texts you are analyzing. Begin this assignment by carefully reading and taking notes on the following two articles: 1) &#8220;Stop Googling. Let&#8217;s Talk.&#8221; by Sherry Turkle (located in the&nbsp;Week 1 Materials), and 2) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[645],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/33946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/33946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=33946"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=33946"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=33946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}