Essay:
Compare and contrast Chinese and Greco-Roman medicine. How were they different, and how were they similar? In what ways might we explain the similarities in their medicine, even though the two cultures developedindependently and far apart from one another?
Essay Format:
I. Introduction
a. Opening sentence that gets the reader's attention
b. thesis statement: this is your argument in a nutshell! State your position.
c. give an indication of the sources/examples you will use to back up your thesis
statement.
d. Example:
i. In the 5th century BCE, Athens and Sparta developed rival city-stateswhose different cultures continue to influence our understanding of western civilization. I would rather have lived in Sparta at the end of the 5th century BCE because it [example X, example Y, example Z]. This is evident in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War and in the waythat Lycurgus depicts Spartan social and military life.
II. Body (minimum 3 lengthy paragraphs - go for more if you can/if you need to)
a. paragraph 1
i. Topic sentence - a "mini" argument that tells the reader what the paragraph is about.
ii. explain with evidence
b. paragraph 2
i. Topic sentence
ii. evidence
c. paragraph 3
i. Topic Sentence
ii. evidence
III. Conclusion: reiterates your argument referencing the evidence used in the body of thepaper.