Essay Writing as a Key Ingredient for a Great Evening


by Jennifer Burns - Date: 2007-04-16 - Word Count: 652 Share This!

My acquaintance with compare and contrast essay writing happened recently. My younger sister came from school one day and said that they were assigned a compare and contrast essay paper, and that she was in despair. I was a little confused, too. But there was no way I was going to let my kid sister fail her homework.
I knew that any essay writing begins from choosing a topic. Well, that was easy... sort of. But when I asked my sister what she would like to write about, she said, "About a lot of things". Okay, maybe it was not that easy. I thought about a lovely Chinese-style shirt that we bought her for her birthday. My sister was really into Asian culture. "Hey", I said, "how about foot binding?" She looked at me and said, "Comparing to corsets, for example!" This was the beginning of our essay paper.
Luckily, at that period of time she was reading Jung Chang's Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. We decided to take some of facts from there. Trust me on this one: nobody knows a history of a particular country better than its citizen.
After that we went online, searching for interesting information about corsets. One thing that is absolutely great about compare-contrast essays is that they let you learn useful and interesting information on at least two issues at a time. My kid sister was absolutely fascinated by the materials she discovered.
After obtaining information, we sat on the floor to organize our notes. If you ever decide to look for the best essay writing tip, consider this one: treat yourself with sweets when writing an essay paper. They enhance the mood greatly and also set an informal atmosphere of productive creative writing. As to our information, we wrote it on separate cards and sorted into two different piles: similarities and differences between wearing corsets and binding feet.
My sister decided to pose the main accent on health damage done by both of these actions, that's why our essay paper got a heading "The Price to Pay". We started essay writing by saying that women of all times have always been concerned about beauty, and could even sacrifice their health for it. The beauty issue was so powerful that it managed to unite two absolutely different cultures - Asian and European.
In the main body of her essay paper my sister gave light on similarities between beauty motivations for both Asian and European women: corsets and foot binding were called to alter the body, make it more small, gracious, and fragile. She even included a term from the book that compared women's bound feet to "three-inch golden lilies".
As to the contrast part, sister decided to put the fact that while wearing corsets was what fashion demanded for those times, foot binding was a tradition that was several thousand years old.
After giving this information, she made a neat conclusion for an essay paper, which said that no matter what the traditions and fashion stood for, both corsets and foot binding resulted badly on women's health, and were their ultimate torture throughout centuries.
When she was done with essay writing, she read it aloud to see if there were any mistakes or clumsy passages that had to be eliminated. She also showed it to our parents, and I can tell you they were impressed.
All in all it appeared to be a great and useful evening for both of us. Sooner or later I had to face the necessity of writing compare and contrast essays, so it was a good practice for me. As to my little sister, she got one more opportunity to conduct researches on the topic she loved the most - Asian culture. Moreover, now she was able to share her knowledge and thoughts with a bigger audience. If you will be given a chance to spend an evening as joyfully as we did, don't even think about rejecting it.


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Jennifer Burns is the head of customer care center at Custom-Writing.org, custom essay help. Having completed a number of academic assignments himself, Jennifer uses her knowledge to provide individualized customer support to students, who order academic essays writing and essays writing

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