What Is A Cause Effect Essay
What Is a Cause-Effect Essay?
Unit 4
Jose R. Pineda
Mrs. Bennet
Group Chapter 4
What is a cause and effect essay? • A cause and effect essay shows the reader the
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relationship between something that happens (cause) and its consequences (effect), or between actions and results. There are different kinds of cause and effect essay for example: Informative, analytical and insightful.
Types of cause and effect essay
• In this unit we are going to study only 2 types of cause and effect essay.
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In one method the writer is going to be focus on the causes, making the reader to ask questions such as: why or how; this is called the focus-oncauses essay.
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In the second method the writer emphasizes the effects or results of the cause, making the reader ask the questions like: what if? This is called focus-on-effect essay.
• For example if professor Bennet tells us to write and cause and effect essay we only have two ways to develop this essay. Let say the topic is: Quitting a job.
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Method 1: Focus on causes: We would start writing why people quit their jobs and any possible reason why would they do so; each paragraph containing different causes.
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Method 2: Focus on effect: By contrast this one we would emphasize on the effects of quitting a job; each paragraph containing one effect.
• Cause/effect paragraphs generally follow basic
paragraph format. That is, they begin with a topic sentence and this sentence is followed by specific supporting details. For example, if the topic sentence introduces an effect, the supporting sentences all describe causes, and vice versa.
Words and Phrases to develop our cause and effect essay as a result
consequently
possibly
certainly
necessarily
initially
above all
finally
leads to
because
due to
probably
may
perhaps
last
equally important
first
unquestionably
therefore
thus
The main reasons
One reason why
primarily
why
Unit 4
Jose R. Pineda
Mrs. Bennet
Group Chapter 4
What is a cause and effect essay? • A cause and effect essay shows the reader the
•
relationship between something that happens (cause) and its consequences (effect), or between actions and results. There are different kinds of cause and effect essay for example: Informative, analytical and insightful.
Types of cause and effect essay
• In this unit we are going to study only 2 types of cause and effect essay.
•
In one method the writer is going to be focus on the causes, making the reader to ask questions such as: why or how; this is called the focus-oncauses essay.
•
In the second method the writer emphasizes the effects or results of the cause, making the reader ask the questions like: what if? This is called focus-on-effect essay.
• For example if professor Bennet tells us to write and cause and effect essay we only have two ways to develop this essay. Let say the topic is: Quitting a job.
•
Method 1: Focus on causes: We would start writing why people quit their jobs and any possible reason why would they do so; each paragraph containing different causes.
•
Method 2: Focus on effect: By contrast this one we would emphasize on the effects of quitting a job; each paragraph containing one effect.
• Cause/effect paragraphs generally follow basic
paragraph format. That is, they begin with a topic sentence and this sentence is followed by specific supporting details. For example, if the topic sentence introduces an effect, the supporting sentences all describe causes, and vice versa.
Words and Phrases to develop our cause and effect essay as a result
consequently
possibly
certainly
necessarily
initially
above all
finally
leads to
because
due to
probably
may
perhaps
last
equally important
first
unquestionably
therefore
thus
The main reasons
One reason why
primarily
why