Writing an essay

She says that when she has 20 students in her class, 9 write about mac vs pc and 9 write about xbox vs PS. The other 2 actually have good papers.

Any paper is good if its written good. It has nothing to do with content. Only context. The reason those 18 student sucked because they spent more time playing the console than writing the paper about the console. If you wanna do WoW vs MS, and know enough about both, go for it. I've written papers that at the root were basically rants about Nexon and their shitty customer service and still made an A on it.

If you're doing a topic that's unfamiliar to most people, balance it by picking supporting arguments that are familiar to people. Compare pomegranate to Hitler, allude to generalized social context. WoW economy vs MS economy then allude to today's economy. Compare the social behavior of WoW players to MS players and throw in some generalized points about behavior defined from psychology. It's not about the content, it's about the context.