This document provides guidance on writing a compare and contrast essay on the roles of women in the UK and another country. It outlines the typical structure of such an essay, including an introduction discussing the topic and key terms, separate sections comparing aspects like work, dress, and finances between the two cultures, and a conclusion. The document also notes that the comparison can be structured either in a "point-to-point" format where each aspect is compared back-to-back, or in a "block" format where all details of one topic are discussed before moving to the next.

1. Essay structure
Compare and Contrast

2. Compare and contrast the role of
women in your country and the UK
• Introduction
• What is this essay about?
• Why is it important?
• What do the key words mean?
• What are you comparing?

3. Compare and contrast the role of
women in your country and the UK
• Introduction
• What is this essay about?
• Why is it important?
• What do the key words mean?
• What are you comparing?
This essay is looking at the role of women in two different cultures.
The role of women differs from country to country and is often a
topic of contentious debate in the media. In this essay the role of
women will include how they are seen and the jobs they do, both
paid and unpaid, both inside and outside the home. It will compare
women’s roles in the UK and in Guyana.

4. Write an introduction to these essay
titles
• Compare differences in educational culture
between the UK and your home countries.
• Compare and contrast life in a city with life in
the countryside.
• Compare and contrast the role fathers and
mothers play in bringing up child

5. Compare and contrast the role of
women in your country and the UK.
Introduction
Women in the UK
Work
Dress
Finances
Women in country X
Work
Dress
Finances
Bring the two ideas together in a short summary
Conclusion
References
Block

6. Compare and contrast the role of
women in your country and the UK.
Introduction
Work
UK
Country X
Dress
UK
Country X
Finance
UK
Country X
Conclusion
References
Point to point

7. Compare and Contrast
•
Block

8. What are these?
• •

9. Task
• Read the essay, which structure does it
follow? “Point to point” or “Block”
• Now replan the essay using the other
structure.

10. Toads and Frogs
Introduction
Shape and size
Frog
Toad
Eye
Frogs
Toads
What they eat
Frogs
Toads
Feet
Frogs
Toads
Conclusion
References