structure outline: comparison and contrast

1. Grant and Lee: Structure Outline
Comparison and Contrast

2. Introduction
(pars. 1-3)
• Engages audience
• Establishes genre
• Indicates context
• Introduces topic
• Sets tone
• Forecasts develpment

3. Constrast section: Lee
(pars. 4-6)
• What was his cultural heritage? (background)
• What were his social attitudes and values?
(personality)
• What did he represent to the South and to his
troops and supporters? (cultural aspirations)

4. Constrast section: Grant
(pars. 7-9)
• What was his cultural heritage?
• What were his social attitudes and values?
• What did he represent to the North and the
West, and to his troops and supporters?

5. Conclusion: Contrast Section
(pars. 10-12)
• Lee and his relation to the South (par.10)
• Grant and his relation to the Union (par. 11)
• Conclusion to contrast section: summary

6. Transition to Comparison
(par. 13)
• Forecast to rest of the essay:
fighting/ personal qualities

7. Comparison Section: Point One
(par. 14)
• Tenacity and fidelity
Example: Grant
Example: Lee

8. Comparison Section: Point Two
(par. 15)
• Daring and Resourcefulness
Example: Lee
Example: Grant

9. Comparison Section: Point Three
(par.16)
• Ability to turn from war to peace
Example: treated both in a single sentence

10. Conclusion
(par.16)
• Summary (last 2 sentences)
• Device to unify essay