Your essay should
- Write an essay about comparing and contrasting growing up an only child/growing up with siblings
- Follow all conventions of grammar, style, structure, and organization discussed in this course
- Have a clear introduction with a thesis statement that sets up the main points
- Have body paragraphs that have a single point (these points relate directly back to the thesis) and a concluding paragraph that wraps it all up
- Use the point by point method of comparison
Your essay should AVOID:
- Outside research
- First or second person
- Judgment about a topic being better; you are only comparing and contrasting them.