English 85 – YanoverEssay #3 paragraph #6 Contrast:First One, Then the Other Approach
Blank Outline for a Paragraph Contrasting the Person You Interviewed and You
Write a Topic Sentence, identifying one difference between the person you interviewed and you, NOT just that you are different.
Then list the examples about the person you interviewed. Give transitions between each (such as, first, second, another, etc.), and add notes about details about each example.
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Then after a transition (such as in contrast or in contrast to or unlike my grandmother, etc.), list all the examples about you. Make sure your examples are parallel in number and focus to the ones you wrote about the person you interviewed. And again add some notes about details for each example
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End the paragraph with a Concluding Sentence connecting back to the Thesis.
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Sample Contrast (First One, Then the Other) Outline:
Topic Sentence: My grandmother and I had very different opportunities. OR While my grandmother’s opportunities in life were limited, mine were broad (though not limitless).
Example #1: My grandmother’s education was limited.
Details about her education (through normal school), what might have limited it.
Example #2: As a woman, my grandmother had few career or job options.
Details about her options and what limited them.
Example #3: My grandmother’s life choices were also limited.
Details about her marriage (being Jewish), being a woman.
Example #4: My grandmother had to be frugal most of her life.
Details about why she needed to be frugal (and when she was finally able to spend/travel—possibly make travel its own example).
Transition.
Example #1: My education was much more extensive than my grandmother’s.
Details about my education and what allowed it.
Example #2: My career choices were also broader than my grandmother’s.
Details about my career choices (and how I chose to be a teacher).
Example #3: My life choices were my own to make.
Details about those choices (not getting married, etc.)
Example #4: Unlike my grandmother, I haven’t learned the art of being frugal.
Details about my spending (travel when young—possibly make travel its own example).
Concluding Sentence: I would connect back to the Thesis, how/why our different opportunities led to different stories but we can still share those stories and are bound together by them.