자신의 주장을 펴기 위하여 두 가지 사실을 비교하거나 대조하는 방식으로 설명하는 경우가 있다.
이런 유형의 글에서는 두 가지 사실의 유사점과 차이점을 하나씩 비교하거나 대조해 가면서 글을 전개한다.
이번 글은 미국인들의 쇼핑 행태의 변화(Shopping in America)에 관한 것으로 변화 전후의 쇼핑 형태의 장점과 단점을 비교하며 논지를 펴고 있다.
볼드체로 표시한 신호어(signal words)에 유의하면서 지시 사항에 따라 분석해 보자.
1. 단락 [1]을 읽고, 비교의 대상과 필자가 주장하는 바를 찾아라.
2. 단락 [2]~[4]와 단락 [1]의 관계를 생각해 보라.
3. 단락 [5]와 단락 [1]의 관계를 생각해 보라.
4. 단락 [6]과 단락 [5]의 관계를 생각해 보라.
5. 단락 [7]의 결론을 써라.
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[1] Since the 1950s, American shoppers have been spending their money in suburban malls instead of in downtown business districts. This is even true of shoppers who have to go out of their way to shop in the malls; they will bypass downtown stores (which they might have gotten to by convenient bus) to drive to the brightly bedecked and weather-free
meccas of shopper-heaven. The result, some people claim, is the demise of the central urban commercial district, Downtown, a process leading inevitably toward more widespread urban blight. But why are Americans are so easily lured to shop in malls in the first place?
[2] First, Americans don't like weather. They like to be indoors whenever possible, even on nice days, and they're willing to pay a premium to be protected from the elements. If they can find someone who can afford it, they will even put their sports stadiums under a gigantic bowl, and they love to stay indoors for a day of shopping. Second, Americans love convenience and, except during the crush of major holidays, malls offer plenty of convenient parking.
[3] Third, the mall offers an extraordinary variety of products under its one gigantic roof. Specialty stores and boutiques offer items that people don't realize they need until they're put under the spell of brightly lighted, beautifully furnished window after window of beguiling wares. Malls are built to respond to Americans' insatiable desire for stuff; either that, or a generation of Americans has been genetically engineered to respond to the sellers of stuff. Either way, it works.
