the first article is https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/broken-english-4/#content and the second comparison paper is https://www.huffingtonpost.com/priscilla-takondwa-semphere/broken-english-mother-tongues_b_7698634.html
Questions to keep in mind when you are writing the Comparison paper:
• What are they (the 2 texts) about?
• Did they originate at some particular time?
• Who created them? Who uses or defends them? Or, more broadly, who does it appeal to?
• What is the central focus, claim, or goal of each? What conclusions do they offer? What are the points of comparisons you can draw from them?
• How are they applied to situations/people/things/etc.?
• Which seems more plausible to you, and why? How broad is their scope?
• What kind of evidence is offered from each of them?
Objective:
The learning objective in this paper is to understand the ways in which texts on a wider topic are interconnected (when you compare them) OR
The ways in which texts share and explore different perspectives on broadly similar topics (you may notice this difference in perspective when you contrast texts)
Why?
Comparing or Contrasting texts show students the ways in which reasoned arguments can take place by assimilating knowledge along multiple perspectives and axes on a broader topic.
Tools Required (for Students):
• For either comparing OR contrasting, students need to show their audience (peers and the instructor) their skills in using summaries (that inform the audience broadly on the focus of the 2 texts they compare OR contrast)
• Students are required to elaborate their knowledge of paraphrasing and quoting as they familiarize their readers in the ways in which the 2 texts can be either compared OR contrasted with each other.
• Students need not present independent thoughts about the two texts, but are required to only indicate the ways in which the texts are connected and interact with the broader topic (that is, how do the texts contrast OR compare)
• Students need to realize that the texts they find online cannot be blog posts, editorials, or personal digital entries or twitter handles!
• Students must refrain from using online sources that use profanity or hurtful/hateful expressions of any kind.
• Students need to assess sources they select online to be at least credible and use-worthy.
• Students are NOT REQUIRED to use “I” voice
• All summaries, paraphrases, quotations within the paper must use MLA 7th ed. format
• this Paper should has a Works Cited page at the end.