Comparative Analysis
Purpose: To compare and contrast the main ideas of two authors using analysis.
Audience: 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) “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.” by Sherry Turkle (located in the Week 1 Materials), and 2) “Finding Time in the Age of Tiktok” by Jenny Odell (located in the Week 3 Materials). Make notes of what you think are the main ideas in each author’s text.
- Using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, begin a new document and add an MLA heading and a title for the assignment. Use your own original title! Please do not use the titles from the authors’ texts.
- 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.
- Identify the topic of the larger conversation to which both authors are contributing (HINT: Read the Week 3 Overview)
- Compare the similarities between each author’s main ideas
- Explain contrasts (differences) between the authors’ main ideas
- Use the resources in the Week 3 Materials to help you write the comparative analysis
- Feel free to use paraphrases or *short* quotations from each text to illustrate the authors’ ideas.
- Organize your analysis into multiple paragraphs using a logical structure.
- Save your document as either a .doc, .docx, or .pdf file and submit through Canvas.
Guidelines
- Strive to meet all the goals described above
- Minimum 400 words
- MLA Formatting
- MLA heading in upper left corner
- Double-spaced lines
- Times New Roman, 12 pt font
- 1″ margins
- Left justified text (Title in center)
- MLA in-text and Works Cited citations
- Submit in .doc, .docx, or .pdf file formats