3) For everyone, home is a place to be offstage. But the comfort of home can have opposite and incompatible meanings for women and men. For many men, the comfort of home means freedom from having to prove themselves and impress through verbal display. At last, they are in a situation where talk is not required. They are free to remain silent. But for women, home is a place where they are free to talk, and where they feel the greatest need to talk, with those they are closest to. For them, the comfort of home means the freedom to talk without worrying about how their talk will be judged. —Deborah Tannen, “Put Down That Paper and Talk to Me!”
A. Block method
B. Point by point
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2) But biology has a funny way of confounding expectations. Rather than disappear, the evidence for innate sexual differences only began to mount. In medicine, researchers documented that heart disease strikes men at a younger age than it does women and that women have a more moderate physiological response to stress. Researchers found subtle neurological differences between the sexes both in the brain’s structure and in its functioning. In addition, another generation of parents discovered that, despite their best efforts to give baseballs to their daughters and sewing kits to their sons, girls still flocked to dollhouses while boys clambered into tree forts. Perhaps nature is more important than nurture after all. —Christine Gorman, “Sizing up the Sexes”
A. Block method
B. Point by point
1) So, Grant and Lee were in complete contrast, representing two diametrically opposed elements in American life. Grant was the modern man emerging; beyond him, ready to come on the stage, was the great age of steel and machinery, of crowded cities and a restless, burgeoning vitality. Lee might have ridden down from the old age of chivalry, lance in hand, silken banner fluttering over his head. Each man was the perfect champion of his cause, drawing both his strengths and his weaknesses from the people he led. —Bruce Catton, “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts”
A. Block method
B. Point by point
4. Which quotations below are analogies?
A novel is usually a long piece in prose
B. He has many mouths to feed in his family
C. Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting
D. Music is fluid architecture, and architecture frozen music
E. Potential is like a diamond in the rough You know there is value, but it just needs to be polished first
3. What is true about the point-to-point comparison?
A. We move back and forth between Item A and Item B at each point
B. We should discuss items in the same order throughout the essay
C. It presents all the information about Item A and then all that about Item B
D. Shifting between Item A and Item B makes the comparison easy to follow