There are many advantages to using criteria, such as the organization and expansiveness they lend automatically to essays, but this approach does add the extra stage of establishing the criteria, and that often requires rigorous critical thinking in order to come up with criteria that truly work.
developing effective criteria can be challenging. It requires deeper critical thinking.
For example, Home Alone is generally regarded as an example of the fun-loving family genre, but you could argue that the movie is actually inappropriate for children. That would involve contrasting what is featured as comical in Home Alone–violence, child abandonment, home invasion, vigilantism–with the category of family films, shedding light on important distinctions between the two.
comparison and contrast can challenge people’s common ideas.
Comparison and contrast often work by engaging in classification, which means explaining how your subjects can actually fit a different type of category than readers would typically realize, or how your subjects should not be placed in their typically assumed categories.
This means that comparison and contrast is not only about similarities and differences, but also about how we classify things.
Yet thou triumph’st, and say'st that thou <br /> Find’st not thy self, nor me the weaker now;
In lines 23 and 24, the listener finally speaks, claiming that by killing the flea, she is not weak. By saying this, she essentially says that there was no harm in killing the flea, as it took both their blood.
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AssayResult: 46
AssayResultAssertion: Indeterminate
PValue: < 0.0001
Approximation: Exact assay result value not reported; value estimated from Figure 6C.
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AssayResult: 87.4
AssayResultAssertion: Not reported
ReplicateCount: 2
StandardErrorMean: 0.88
Comment: Exact values reported in “Source Data” file.