Unit Six

Writing

Focus on a cause-and-effect essay

When analyzing a cause-and-effect situation, we need to ask the following questions:

1. What are the causes? What are the effects?

2. Which should be emphasized: the cause or the effect?

3. Are there multiple causes or multiple effects?

While writing a cause-and-effect essay, we need to rememberthe following:

1. State briefly the causes or effects to be discussed in the thesis statement.

2. Plan to use one paragraph to describe each of the causes or effects.

3. Use the order of importance to organize details.

4. Using appropriate transitions such as :

because of, as a result of, caused by, result from, the reason is that..., for, due to, since (Causes)

cause, result in, thus, therefore, consequently, as a result(Effects)