Read & use: compare & contrast essay topics for college students
Writing a strong comparison and contrast effect requires students to keep in mind that the subjects need to be logically comparable. In addition, your writing needs to have a clear purpose.
You can find some great examples of comparison and contrast work in:
- Mark Twain’s “Two Ways of Seeing a River” or
- Joseph Addison’s “Laughter”
- George Eliot’s “Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft
After you have reviewed those samples it is incumbent upon you to start writing a top notch paper. But how?
Start with the topic. If you are having trouble finding a topic, consider the topic suggestions below:
- Compare & contrast two stages of a person’s life
- Compare & contrast two professional athletes
- Compare & contrast your view of your parents while you lived with them and once you moved out
- Compare & contrast two neighborhoods
- Compare & contrast two video games
- Compare & contrast taking an online course to a traditional classroom course
- Compare & contrast a place you visited in the past and in the present
- Compare & contrast one place in the morning versus at night
- Compare & contrast bulimia and anorexia
- Compare & contrast a good boss to a bad boss
- Compare & contrast two ways to study for a test
- Compare & contrast two ways to lose weight (one way should be a healthy way and the other should be an unhealthy way)
- Compare & contrast two workplaces
- Compare & contrast Microsoft and Apple
- Compare & contrast two memorable teachers you had
- Compare & contrast two coffee shops
- Compare & contrast being love to infatuation
- . Compare & contrast two of your close friends
- Compare & contrast two different ways to download movies
- Compare & contrast two different ways to download music
- Compare & contrast an active student in your class to a passive student in your class
- Compare & contrast two versions of the same movie (a classic and the remake of it)
- Compare & contrast your current car to the car you want to own one day
- Compare & contrast your current home to the home you want to own one day
- Compare & contrast a book to the movie of it (such as Harry Potter of the Lord of the Rings)
- Compare & contrast two different types of exercise