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Analyzing Causes and Effects: A Guide to Writing a Major Essay on Complex Issues

This guide provides essential insights into writing a cause-and-effect essay, with a focus on understanding the intricate connections between events. Explore the nuances of speculating and persuading your audience while avoiding common fallacies. We'll delve into various topics, such as sleep deprivation and voter apathy, by examining both primary and secondary causes and effects. The aim is to equip you with the tools necessary to create compelling arguments backed by well-researched evidence, ensuring your essay resonates with readers.

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Analyzing Causes and Effects: A Guide to Writing a Major Essay on Complex Issues

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  1. Week 12 Chapter 17 Cause and Effect Major Essay #4

  2. Bell Vocabulary 11.1 • puerile adj. Childish • pusillanimous adj. Without spirit or bravery • querulous adj. Habitually complaining

  3. Cause-Effect aka Casual Analysis • Creating connections between events…. The great “what if?” • Subject?? What about it interests you? Will it interest your audience?

  4. Are you speculating or persuading? • Are you trying to “stir up” your audience?

  5. How much information do you have? Where did it come from? • Will you examine causes, effects or both?

  6. suggestions • Linear causes/effects • Avoid fallacy of following events • Correlation does not mean causation- same time events do not always have the same cause or effect • Primary and secondary c/e

  7. Examples • Profiling • Clothing trends • Economic depression

  8. Bell Vocabulary 11.2 • queue n. A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance • radix n. That from or on which something is developed • ramose adj. Branch-like

  9. Time to brainstorm- choose one • Sleep deprivation • Voter apathy • Actor popularity • Rising teen suicide

  10. Due dates….. • Proposal – Wednesday • Ideas and thesis, possible sources of support, potential problems. • Typed Draft for peer edit- Friday • Must have works cited for outside sources ( 2 minimum)

  11. Bell Vocabulary 11.3 • raptorial adj. Seizing and devouring living prey • recidivist n. A confirmed criminal. • recrudescent adj. Becoming raw or sore again

  12. Bell Vocabulary 11.4 • redolent adj. Smelling sweet and agreeable • refractory adj. Not amenable to control • reticent adj. Habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance

  13. Peer Edit • Peer edit three papers. • Remember to use helpful criticism, not harsh! • One solid paragraph each with your name. • Must be attached to the end of the draft.

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