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Essential guide to writing part 9

The persuasive purpose is also reflected in the writer's strat¬egy of short emphatic sentences. They are convincing, and they establish an appropriate informal relationship with readers. | For more material and information please visit www.tailieuduhoc.org Il8 THE EXPOSITORY PARAGRAPH Building the Comparison or Contrast Closely related to the question of organization is a final problem in what compositional units will the comparison be built that is out of paragraphs portions of paragraphs sentences halves of sentences Probably the simplest plan is to spend a paragraph or several sentences within a paragraph on one of the two subjects and a unit of roughly equal length on the other. This is what F. M. Esfandiary does in discussing the differences between Eastern and Western attitudes toward science. But you may also construct a comparison or contrast in pairs of sentences The original Protestants had brought new passion into the ideal of the state as a religious society and they had set about to discipline this society more strictly than ever upon the pattern of the Bible. The later Protestants reversed a fundamental purpose and became the allies of individualism and the secular state. Herbert Butterfield Or both parts of the comparison may be held within a single sentence the total effect being built up from a series of such sentences At first glance the traditions of journalism and scholarship seem completely unlike journalism so bustling feverish content with daily oblivion the academic world so sheltered deliberate and hopeful of enduring products. It is true that both are concerned with ascertainment and diffusion of truth. In journalism however the emphasis falls on a rapid diffusion of fact and idea in academic work it falls on a prolonged laborious ascertainment. Allen Nevins How you build a comparison or contrast is related of course to how you organize it. Using two paragraphs or two portions of a single paragraph is better when you are organizing around A and B that is treating each subject in its For more material and information please visit www.tailieuduhoc.org 2 COMPARISON CONTRAST AND ANALOGY 119 entirety. Proceeding by balanced .