Paul and Barnabas — What Happened Between These Two?

Jim LaBate
22 min readMar 2, 2024
Photo by Tim Wildsmith on Unsplash

Are you ready for some writing instruction today? As a long-time English teacher, at both the high-school- and community-college level, I spent a lot of class time teaching my students to write. And one of the most common writing assignments was the compare-and-contrast essay where I asked my students to place two of something side by side: For example, I might ask them to write about cats versus…

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Jim LaBate

Jim LaBate is a writer and teacher who assists in The Writing Center at Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) in Troy, New York.