comparison

and
contrast
structure

Enmanuel Josué
Torres

Victor David Aparicio

Rivero

Isaac José Heredia

Martinez
 Table of Contents

Definition structure…..Description
structure 1.

Description structure…. Description

Features 2.3

Structure of Comparison and Contrast

2.3

COMPARISON AND CONTRAST 3.

 Definition
structure

A definition is an attempt to express the meaning of a concept by

means of other supposedly more familiar concepts, invoked by
words. Dictionary definitions are frequently circular, that is, you
end up using words that are synonyms or related to the word to
be defined.

Description
structure
Description is a discursive tool or technique that has been
developed over the years to represent explanations of features
and elements in detail. Such is its relevance in today's world that

it is used in different academic fields and outside of it .

What is the structure of the description?

Describing consists of explaining in detail all the features and

characteristics that make up something or someone, to perform
this technique in the correct way you must follow a structure, this
is the following:

 You have to carefully observe what is going to be described

and the most important details should be highlighted.

 The data to be explained must be selected.

 The data must be presented in order: From general to

particular, inside or outside, left to right.

 When describing, you have to place the objects in space.

Description Structure
It depends on the object to be described:
 For people:
o From the general to the details or
from top to bottom

 For spaces and environments:

o From the general to the particular,

from top to bottom, from the
particular to the details, as the
space progresses
 To describe processes:
o Chronological order

Description Features
Description is a type of discursive technique that has been in
charge of revolutionizing in all kinds of fields due to its ability to
represent details through words. For this reason, this technique
has different characteristics, these are the following:
 It is a discursive technical tool.
 It serves to explain in detail every element that an object,
animal or thing comprises.
 It allows you to easily know what you are talking about.
 It is in charge of attending to a perceived, imagined or felt
reality.
 When it is subjective, it presents feelings about psychic
elements.
 When it is objective, it clearly presents what is observed
in reality.

Importance of description
The description is of vital importance, as it is a tool that helps
the explanation and understanding of any type of thing, animal,
object or person in all types of field. It is important to describe
well everything that you want to explain in detail through words,
because if this technique is not applied in the correct way, a
misunderstanding may develop and in this way the message sent
by the sender will leave a bad impression on the receiver.
Thanks to the description, various academic fields, such as
science and literature, have taken the liberty of correctly
explaining all the messages that they want to express through the
oral or written word.
 Structure of
Comparison and
Contrast
The comparison-contrast structure is a technique that serves to
classify and sort all ideas gathered by means of various free opinion
procedures.
With this method you will group your ideas by comparison and by
Contrast.

The comparison shows the similarities that exist between two

Entities; the contrast points out the differences. These exposure
methods can be used when the writer wishes
Do the next:

1. Present information about something that the reader does not know,
giving it to know through their similarities or differences in relation to
something that the reader does know. For example, to explain to
someone what it is a papaya, it can be compared to other fruits.
2. Present information about two entities that the reader is unaware of,
comparing them or contrasting them with something already known.
For instance,
To talk about two novels that the reader does not know, you can make
a comparison or contrast between the definition of an ideal novel and
the two novels that want to be discussed.
3. Present information about some general idea by comparison and /
or contrast of two entities that the reader already knows.
For example, to develop the theme of the Olympic Games, you can
make a comparison and contrast between the games of antiquity and
modern ones
.
4. Evaluate or make judgments about two entities.
There are two types of structures that are fundamental and that are
used when write an exposition based on comparison and / or contrast.
1. The complete presentation of the two entities. In this kind of
structure presents all the aspects of an entity, it includes a transition
paragraph and the full discussion of the other follows entity.
2. The presentation of an aspect of an entity, followed by the
comparison and / or contrast of this with an equal aspect of the entity
opposite. In this type of structure, the comparison of

COMPARISON CONTRAST

What in the same way Secondly while

Like greater than Conversely Unlike
smaller than similarly on the other hand
instead

a characteristic that both entities have in common, before move on to

the next feature. Commonly in this type of organization, the
similarities between two entities before going on to talk about their
differences.
5 This technique will help you to classify and order the information
available. When using this classification technique, it is essential to
know to abstract, that is, to know how to eliminate superfluous
details, so that can recognize common characteristics to the ideas that
have been put together. For this you can use different types of inks
Next, we will present some, but only as a suggestion, you can
incorporate many others, as long as they show a comparison-contrast.

COMPARISON AND CONTRAST

It is a technique used to classify and order all the ideas gathered

through brainstorming, free writing, the star or the cube. With this
method you will group your ideas by comparison and by contrast. The
comparison will show the similarity between two ideas, objects,
people or animals; the contrast, their similarities or differences with
other similar ones.

This technique will help you group ideas by comparison and contrast.
This way you will be able to classify and order all the information
you have and you will be able to build a speech with the ideas that
you have gathered.