Compare and contrast frameworks
Using a grid to summarise different authors’ arguments can help you move away from writing descriptively about them.  Making comparisons and contrasts between different sources can help you think more deeply about sources and to use evidence from your reading more analytically.    
The method
1.	Decide what you want to compare and choose one of our designs for your grid or make one of your own.
2.	Identify the main themes you want to explore.  These could come from course materials, a lecture or an assignment.   We put the themes down the left-hand side of our grids.
3.	Along the top edge of your grid fill in the sources you want to compare.
4.	Summarise using key phrases against the themes for each of the sources.  
5.	Instead of writing about each source separately, write about each theme making comparisons.
Variations
Make your own grid to suit your purpose.  For example you might want to compare case studies, practitioners, authors or research methods.  
You may want to compare more than two sources for part of your writing .
Adapt the method to suit you.  You can work on screen using an electronic document, use large sheets of paper or different coloured sticky notes arranged on imaginary grid on a wall.

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