{"id":80404,"date":"2023-06-02T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=80404"},"modified":"2023-06-01T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T13:09:21","slug":"qotd-the-four-types-of-college-papers-for-english-majors-1-the-reliable-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/06\/02\/qotd-the-four-types-of-college-papers-for-english-majors-1-the-reliable-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The four types of college papers for English Majors &#8211; 1. The Reliable C&#038;C"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>This is the &#8220;compare and contrast&#8221; paper, and is about as simple as they come. You take two things that aren&#8217;t exactly like each other. It&#8217;s just like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rsRjQDrDnY8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sesame Street<\/em><\/a>, but with books.<\/p>\n<p>Then you list 5 ways they are similar and 5 ways they are different. <em>Voil\u00e1<\/em> \u2014 you&#8217;ve written a college paper!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Ernest Hemingway and Jane Austen are both writers who share the same language: English. But Hemingway is an American who liked bullfighting and drinking martinis. Jane Austen is English and never fought a bull. She probably drank tea, because the martini wasn&#8217;t invented until 1863, some 47 years after her death &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can write this stuff in your sleep, provided you dream about Wikipedia entries. But be forewarned: the reliable C&#038;C probably only gets you a reliable C grade.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Gioia, <a href=\"https:\/\/tedgioia.substack.com\/p\/the-4-types-of-colleges-papers-for\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The 4 Types of College papers for English Majors&#8221;, <em>The Honest Broker<\/em><\/a>, 2023-02-27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the &#8220;compare and contrast&#8221; paper, and is about as simple as they come. You take two things that aren&#8217;t exactly like each other. It&#8217;s just like Sesame Street, but with books. Then you list 5 ways they are similar and 5 ways they are different. Voil\u00e1 \u2014 you&#8217;ve written a college paper! Ernest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,57,41],"tags":[764,134],"class_list":["post-80404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-university","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-kUQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82502,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80404\/revisions\/82502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}