Tips for a comparative essay (aka a comparison essay.)

One simple mistake that younger writers make when writing a comparison essay is choosing something they like and comparing it to something they dislike. This often seems like a good idea because it is so much fun to think about something you really enjoy and to pick on something that you don’t like. Unfortunately, that usually makes for thoughtlessness and oversimplification.

When choosing what you are going to compare, you can choose to compare things that seem very alike or very different, or any number of things. It is best to choose two things that interest you or that you would like to learn more about, because the writing process becomes more instructive when you do that. You will actually learn this way, and it’s not necessarily slower or more difficult.

Comparing things is a process, the results of which can be that they are very similar, very different, and everything in between. Your aim should not be “discover” that there are exactly alike or completely different or whatever, but to earnestly explore and describe the things in question.

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