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Writing the Cause/Effect Essay Causal Analysis or Expository Writing Karen S. Wright

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Writing the Cause/Effect EssayCausal Analysis or Expository

Writing

Karen S. Wright

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We’re Going to Do What???

Our Lives are Filled with Causes and Effects

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Why does a kite fly?

Why a does zebra look like a horse?

Cause and Effect Can Be as Complex as Questioning. . . .

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Or Cause and Effect Can Seem . . . .

As Natural As a Mother’s LoveBECAUSE

WHY

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What Causes Homes to Go Into Foreclosure?

• Unemployment•Upside down mortgages•Loss of property value for a sale•Unsafe lending

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Basic Pattern for Cause (Reason) and Effect (Result)

Cause Produces Effect

Jobs ProduceMoney

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Sometimes There isMore Than One Cause

Cause 1

Cause 2

Cause 3

Effect

Be sure to give examples for each cause and effect-- explain the reasons and the results by drawing a picture with words. Explain why something happens.

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Car exhaustFactory releases =

Air PollutionEnergy from coal

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Sometimes there are several effects for one cause.

Cause

Effect 1

Effect 3

Effect 2

Effect 4

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If a person is a couch potato (the cause),what are the Effects

(results)?

eye strainInactivityObesitylack of motivation

(Being a Couch potato produces. . .)

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How Do We Write a Cause/Effect Essay

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The Cause/Effect Relationship

Find a topic with a clear relationship between the cause and effect.Determine whether the events can be repeated Every time A is present, B occurred.

Brainstorm and put your information into a graph or web so you can clearly see your thinking.

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Decide the Cause/EffectRelationship

•Ask yourself— “Why did this event happen?”Event=effectWhy=causes

To make your essay clear. . .

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Focus More On the Cause or Effect

•What causes lung cancer?

OR

•What effects can happen from cigarette smoking?

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Check You Logic

Make sure you don’t confuse an effect for a cause.Consider all causes and effects and choose the best for your essay.

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Use a Logical Order When You Write

Use chronological order: What happened first, then second, etc.

ORUse least obvious to most obvious.

ORUse the least important to the most important.

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Special Transitional Words to HelpWords that show cause and effect:

as a result consequentlytherefore since

becausebecause of

due to . . . so. . . Other words to show certainty:unquestionably perhaps

possiblyinevitably certainlyprobablyWords of importance:

above all primarilyfirst

initially lastfinally

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What Topic Do Want to Sink YOUR Teeth Into?

Effects of air pollutionCauses of air pollutionEffects of being an athleteEffects of smokingEffects of alcoholismCauses of anorexiaEffects of too much TV