Travel Essay

Description:

Creating an outline is a crucial skill in college-level writing. An outline will help you organize your thoughts and evidence effectively, which in turn will facilitate the actual writing of your essay.

Create an outline for your four-paragraph comparison essay on one of the following topics

1. Two sustainable fish farms
2. Two celebrity chefs
3. Two kinds of the same beverage
4. Two special event venues
5. Two tourist destinations or destination packages

Use your notes from the screening and/or from your research. Make sure you write clearly. Your sentences can be short, but please make them as complete as possible. (You can change your topic and ideas when you start working on the actual essay, but you will still have to follow this template.)

Criteria

Ratings

1. Your thesis sentence states the two subjects to be compared and three specific points of comparison between these subjects, based on the screening and/or research.

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1. Your body paragraphs follow the order of two points of comparison stated in the intro and develop them in brief detail with potential supporting quotes or paraphrases to be used later in your essay. Give stats and/or examples that make it clear how the two subjects compare according to that specific point of comparison.

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1. Your points of comparison announced in the intro and developed in the two main paragraphs are connected.

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1. Your outline uses grammatically correct language.

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1. Your conclusion not only recaps the two points of comparison but offers recommendations as to which of the two subjects compared would be a better choice overall.

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Total

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