I'm needing help understand this assignment on the last question comparing Courtroom Participants: Fiction versus Reality and the links given for fiction courtrooms has nothing to do with the show law and order to be able to compare with the reality courts tooo. please help!!

Question

Here whats need from the assignment and the links.
select examples from fictional portrayals of the courtroom found in books, movies, and television, for example, The Runaway Jury, A Few Good Men, or Law and Order to make a comparison between reality and fiction. Choose two of the five courtroom participants you described and compare their fictional portrayal to their real-life role in the courtroom. Be sure to cite specific examples of how media portrayals of courtroom participants are accurate or inaccurate. Use the Court TV Web site at to help your research. Your response must be 100 to 150 words in length.

Answer 1

The term "comparing" implies telling what the similarities are; I believe, however, that your teacher wants you to compare and contrast.

First, choose two of the five courtroom participants you described;

Then compare their fictional portrayal to their real-life roles in the courtroom.

So ...
**Whom have you chosen from fiction?
**Whom have you chosen from real-life courtrooms?

Once you've decided on those, then you're ready to begin:

1. Brainstorm in 3 columns or by means of a Venn diagram -- http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/venn.pdf

2. List characteristics and answers: All that are just describing fictional characters (on the left); common between the two groups (in the center); all that are just describing real-life courtroom participants (on the right).

3. Use lists to formulate initial thesis (to be refined as the paper goes along).

4. Use lists to design plan or outline for your paper.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/comparison.htm