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Comparison and Contrast Essay

OUTLINE

Thesis Statement: However, there are a lot of differences between letter as a communication tool and e-mail as a communication way that we can compare.

Body Paragraph 1

Topic Sentence: Firstly, letter is one of the oldest communication tools.

1.0: letter’s permanence and letter as a memory

2.0: slow communication tool and the slowness of arriving letter

2.1: teaching to be patient

3.0: long texts

3.1: one or more than papers

4.0: feeling the letter with three senses

5.0: reading and burning letter in different times

6.0: necessities such as harmony, order, and grammar rules

6.1: taking care of spelling rules

7.0: writing about long processes

8.0: postman and giving letters to post-office

8.1: making logical decisions while giving letter to post-office

9.0: letter song and letter’s traditional feature

10.0: requirements such as paper, pencil to write letter

Conclusion Sentence: As a result, writing letter isn’t an easy job and people generally write letters people they love and value.

Body Paragraph 2

Topic Sentence: Secondly, nowadays, e-mail is so popular communication way.

1.0: the speed of sending e-mail

2.0: mentioning only one topic in e-mails

3.0: advertisement e-mails

3.1: deleting these advertisement e-mails

4.0: unnecessary harmony and order for e-mail

5.0: not finding topic to talk about

6.0: not taking care of grammar and spelling rules

7.0: writing e-mail angrily and nervously because of easiness

8.0: not requiring money and effort

9.0: not permanent

10.0: necessary things such as computer and internet

Conclusion Sentence: As a result, sending e-mail is an easy job and e-mail doesn’t require so much rules.

Conclusion Paragraph:

1. Summarizing

2. Recommending: To provide people to use letters more common, we should teach children how to write letters correctly and inform about its merit in schools.

 

Letter and E-mail

Every human needs to communicate with other people to sustain life and nowadays, communication is a requirement as important as eating and drinking for people. People use different ways to keep in touch each other. Two of them are letter and e-mail. They are similar to each other. However, there are a lot of differences between letter as a communication tool and e-mail as a communication way that we can compare.

Firstly, letter is one of the oldest communication tools. The most important feature of letter is being permanent and letters are important and valuable memories for people. On the other hand, letter is a slow communication tool; it takes one day or more than one day to reach the address we sent. So, it teaches people to wait and be patient. Texts are generally long in letters and there are a lot of things to write. So, papers may be more than one or two. It is also important that we feel letter paper with three senses which are sense of sight, sense of touch, and even sense of smell. While letter can be read repeatedly in longing and separation times, it also can be burned in aversion times. There are harmony and order in letters and it requires basic grammar rules. Even if people don’t know grammar rules, people try to take care of spelling rules. Long processes such as weeks, months, and even years are written thoroughly in letters. There is also a postman in letters and preparing letters and giving them to post-office take so much time. This time provides us to make more logical decisions. Letters are traditional and we have even a song related to letter which is ‘bak postacı geliyor selam veriyor’. There are effort and toil in letters they are necessary things; paper, pencil, stamp, envelope, time, and money to be able to write and send a letter. As a result, writing letter isn’t an easy job and people generally write letters people to they love and value.

Secondly, nowadays, e-mail is so popular communication way. E-mail is so fast that it takes only a few seconds to reach person we sent. People generally mention only one subject in e-mails. Most of e-mails which are sent us are generally related to advertisements. Sometimes, while we are deleting these advertisements, some important e-mails which our relatives and friends send us may be overlooked and deleted without being read. It isn’t necessary harmony and order for e-mails, it is written like chatting. Even though the process or time which people talk about is long, people don’t find something to write. So, this question comes out ‘how are things with you?’ People don’t take care of grammar rules and spelling rules in e-mails. Another point is that it may be written in an angry and nervous mood as it is so fast and easy. There isn’t something concrete in e-mails so, they aren’t permanent. Computer and internet are only necessary to send an e-mail. As a result, sending e-mail is an easy job and e-mail doesn’t require so much rules.

To sum up, as the differences we see in letters and e-mails, e-mails are faster to send and easier to write than letters. So, people use e-mails more than letters. We can say that today letter isn’t almost used and most people don’t know even how to be written letter. But it is something traditional, beautiful, and it is a memory for us. To provide people to use letters more common, we should teach children how to write letters correctly and inform about its merit in schools. People send letters to people who they attach importance because it is believed that letter is more important than the expensive gift you will buy and the romantic dinner you will bring.