ESSAY 2: COMPARE AND CONTRAST GROUP NORMS

Assignment Overview:
Theme: Group Norms
Type of Essay: Compare and Contrast
Sources: 1 direct quotation or paraphrase from Chapter 16 of our textbook.
Integrate
your quote properly using the quotation sandwich. Use proper MLA formatting for your
quote.
Length:3 pages total (not including your Works Cited)
Formatting: Follow all MLA conventions, including headers, 12 pt Times New Roman,
double spacing, and 1 inch margins. You also need a Works Cited page.
Textbook Connection:
Chapter 16
Essay Format:
Include an
introduction
(last sentence should be a strong thesis),
5-6 body paragraphs
(each with a clear topic sentence as the first sentence of the
paragraph), and a
conclusion, which leaves the reader with food for thought and recaps
the thesis in fresh words.
Writing Prompt:
As you will read in Chapter 16, different sets of norms apply to different groups of people.
Write an essay in which you compare and contrast two groups of people and their norms.
Choose from the list below, or choose two other groups you find particularly interesting.
Team athletes (for example, baseball and football players) versus individual athletes (for example, gymnasts and ice skaters)
Upperclassmen (juniors and seniors) versus underclassmen (freshmen and
sophomores)
Students in introductory courses (for example, introduction to psychology) versus
students in a discipline’s upper-level courses (for example, psychological statistics or
abnormal psychology)
Adolescents/teenagers versus senior citizens
Prewriting Instructions:
Click on “Complete: Prewriting for Essay #2” to see instructions and complete them.
MLA Tip:
Include a proper MLA Works Cited page. An example of general formatting appears below.

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