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Writing Developing the First Draft

Beginning 🟪 With all beginnings, you need to introduce your topic and inform readers what you plan to focus on. You can also include a brief story about why this topic is important to you—if that would make the introduction more interesting.

Middle 🟪 In the middle part of a comparison-contrast essay, you must decide how to arrange your details so that they are easy to understand and interesting for the reader. There are three basic ways you can arrange your details in your middle paragraphs. Choose the arrangement that works best for your topic.

Arranging Your Details

1. You can explain all of your details about one of your subjects first, and then do the same with the other subject. In other words, you might write two or three paragraphs about one subject (Mountain bike) followed by two or three paragraphs about the other subject (BMX bike). This arrangement is called subject-by-subject.

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