During their course of study, students should learn to write many types of essays. One of such types is a comparative essay that can be a rather frustrating work. So, judging from its name, comparative essay presupposes that students should compare two things, ideas, people or events.
 
In general, students should outline positive or negative sides of phenomena and discuss them in the appropriate way. Actually, there are no strict rules about constructing a comparative essay, however, it will be useful for you to read some advice that will help you write a good comparative essay.

1. First you should do is to analyze the topic or the question of the comparative essay carefully. It means that before writing you essay you should make a research in order to understand and to analyze the things you have to compare.
2. The next step of writing a comparative essay is writing the introduction. Here you should present the things you will compare. Give a clear idea of the points you are going to examine and outline the focus of your comparative essay. The reader should understand why you have chosen particular things to compare.
3. After the introduction, you should think about the structure of the main body. As a matter of fact, there are several types of paragraph organization for the comparative essay. However, there should be no less than three of them. One of the variants is to compare each half of two items in each paragraph. Another variant is to compare the similarities in the first paragraph, differences in the second and give a strong approval to your arguments in the third one.

Finally, write a conclusion for your comparative essay. The conclusion is the statement of your personal opinion and a brief generalizing of the most important similarities and differences.
 
So, your comparative essay is ready and it will be good to leave it for a day before revising or, it is better, give your friend to read your essay.