The Straight Line of Development

How to Write an Effective Comparison or Contrast Essay: Summary 1. Know what organizational style you are using. Whether you use the block arrangement or point-by-point arrangement, you should be able to identify it. Being able to identify your organization will not only help you in the organization of your own writing, but it will also help your reader follow the points you make. 2. State your organization. Remember the "straight line of development" that was discussed in the introduction requires that you "tell your audience what you are going to tell them; then tell them; then tell them what you told them." An important objective in academic writing is clarity, and stating your organization always contributes to clarity. Err on the side of clarity! 3. Keep your audience in mind. Be sure your reader can relate to your topic. After you finish writing, read your essay from the perspective of your audience. How will they respond to your ideas? Will they understand what you have written? Will they agree with your main point? Will the support appear logical to them? 4. Say what you want to say. Write like Robert Persig did in his book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In your essay, make your preference clear as Persig did when he contrasted the difference between vacationing by car or motorcycle. Finally, to further clarify how it would be possible to say what you want to say in your writing, consider which of the following options would YOU prefer, and why? To support your point in each essay, what characteristics would you choose to contrast, and what support would you use? Can you think of any other topics that might be fun to contrast? A. Vacationing in Paris or taking a three-week trip down the Amazon.  B. Growing up in a small town or growing up in a large city.  C. Working for large company or running your own business. D. _______________________________________ E. _______________________________________

In order for a high performance track athlete to reach a level needed to compete, he/she needs to have a focused training, training with an objective. Not all training is the same; there are different kinds of training to achieve different results. In this essay I will discuss the differences between an aerobic and an anaerobic training.

First of all, both kinds of training are done to achieve different goals. If what you want is to develop force, you must do an anaerobic training. Anaerobic training increases your force and muscular mass; therefore, your velocity increases because you are now stronger. But if it is more stamina what you want, you’ll have to do an aerobic training. Aerobic training builds up your lung capacity, and your heart is forced to pump more blood to your body, resulting in heart strength.
In aerobic training the warm-up is short and with a low intensity. The anaerobic training warm-up is longer because muscles receive a much more aggressive treat treatment than in an aerobic training. Sprints (50-200m) are part of an anaerobic training, while longer runs (300-500m) with a more comfortable rhythm belong to an aerobic training. In anaerobic training there is a gap between runs, to recover, and then to run the next repetition just as fast. On the other hand, aerobic training has very short recovery times between repetitions, and very often the recovery must be done jogging. That is not recovery at all! But that is the way it’s done. Working out in a gymnasium is a useful anaerobic training too.
Finally, I perform both types of training several times a week; consequently, I can describe what my body feels like after each training session. When I finish an anaerobic training, I feel my legs heavy and numb after all the effort done. My body aches as a result of the lactic acid produced by my muscles, but I can breathe perfectly well after 5 minutes. After an aerobic training, I feel my muscles loose and weak. My lungs feel stretched and my recovery can last all day long.
A sprinter has to carry out more anaerobic training sessions than a distance runner, but they both do aerobic and anaerobic training. We can’t choose only one because they are equally important to grow as a competitive athlete.