Writing a Cause and Effect Paper about Yourself
Writing about Cause and Effect
Writing a Cause and Effect Paper about Recent Events or Pop Culture
Select a recent event in the news or some aspect of popular culture. It may be an event related to a company launching a new product, a city or school cutting its budget, a business or person being punished for illegal activities, or changes in the way we live because of technology, terrorism, or another factor. Freewrite about the possible causes and likely effects of your selected topic. Write a paper that evaluates the relationship between the causes and effects of your selected topic.
When you begin planning your paper, ask yourself the following questions: Is the cause possible, probable, or definite? Is there one cause, or several? Are there multiple effects? What is the relationship between multiple causes or multiple effects? Which should be emphasized? For example, do cellular phones increase the number of automobile accidents? Do they merely contribute to automobile accidents? Are there other causes? Etc.
Learning Objectives
• To evaluate and define aspects of causality
• To strengthen general evaluative skills
• To wrestle with and describe the complex relationships between multiple causes, multiple effects, and between related causes and effects
Writing a Cause and Effect Paper about Yourself
What events in your past caused you to be the person you are today? Think of a trait that you possess, and write an essay explaining how you came to possess it. Try to focus on a series of events that culminated in a defining characteristic. In other words, narrate a series of events over time that illustrates the development of your trait.
Learning Objectives
• To practice self-evaluative writing
• To practice viewing causality as ongoing rather than instantaneous
Writing a Cause and Effect Paragraph
Cause-and-effect paragraphs may:
1. focus on the single cause of a single effect,
2. focus on the single cause of several effects, or
3. focus the single effect of multiple causes.
However, a single paragraph is probably too short to address multiple causes with multiple effects.
As you begin to plan writing a cause-and-effect paragraph, remember that it should not simply list causes and effects but should examine the relationship between a single effect and its cause(s) or a single cause and its effect(s).
For this paragraph:
• Select a recent story from the news and find at least two newspaper clippings that cover the story.
• Select a cause to write about, then make a list of all the possible effects. (Or, select an effect and make a list of all the possible causes.)
• Review some common logical fallacies as you evaluate the relationships between cause(s) and effect(s) to be sure your analysis is valid.
• Think critically about the order in which you will present the cause(s), the effect(s), and your reasoning about their relationship.
Your paragraph should have:
• a beginning (a topic sentence that introduces the story),
• a body (details that contribute to the purpose of the paragraph), and
• a conclusion (a sentence that explains why this event or experience was worth writing about).
Learning Objectives
• To focus on cause and effect
• To think about logical fallacies
• To consider the organization and presentation of evidence and reasoning
• To practice structuring paragraphs
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