Sometimes you need to write about categories, and these may fall into big categories with small, specific examples. As an example, let's say you were going to write about garden weeds. You might explain some general things about weeds and then go on to write about particular ones, like dandelions and thistles.
1) Categorization places the individual into a social category based on what they look like, sound like, how they're dressed, and so on.
In this example, you would very likely determine that this was a homeless man with no money, which is a conclusion that your brain has made not on verifiable facts, but by assessing the visual cues and assigning the man to a general category. In this way, social categorization is like an operational shortcut used by your brain.
Comparing means finding the ways things are alike, while contrasting means finding ways things are different. There are two ways to do this. In the first way, you can put all the similarities together and then put all the differences together.
Amy has taught and tutored college-level English; she has a master's degree from Colorado State University in rhetoric and composition. In this lesson, you will learn clear, simple ways to group your ideas together. First, you'll figure out what the paper is about, and then the rest is easy!