18 Oct Cause-Effect Essay

Cause-Effect Essay

 

Required Resources

 

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

 

•             Textbook: Chapter 3, 9

 

•             Lesson 1

 

•             Week 5 Assignment

 

•             Feedback from instructor and peers on your Week 5 Discussion & Assignment and Week 6 Discussion

 

•             Do not use sources; no research is allowed.

 

Optional Resources

 

Review the following writing resources:

 

•             Link (multimedia presentation): How to Avoid Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism (Links to an external site.)

 

•             Link (multimedia presentation): APA Basics (Links to an external site.) (Review this tutorial for formatting an APA paper and title page.)

 

Instructions

 

Using the Cause-Effect Extended Draft Outline Template that you completed for last week’s assignment, you are now ready to compose the full and final cause and effect essay. Be sure to read this week’s lesson and Chapter 9 in your text for information about developing your body paragraphs and revising your introduction and conclusion.

 

Successful assignments will do the following:

 

•             Focus on either one effect that emerges from multiple causes or one cause and multiple effects that arise from it.

 

•             Follow a clear pattern of either explaining the single cause or the single effect, with your body paragraphs, then, including an expansion on (with descriptions, examples, and logic) the several causes or the several effects.

 

•             Include a thesis statement at the end of the introduction that conveys the overall goal of the cause/effect relationship and provides relevance for your reader.

 

•             Include details to establish the ways in which your causes and effects and powerfully related.

 

Writing Requirements (APA format)

 

•             Length: 3-4 pages (not including title page)

 

•             1-inch margins

 

•             Double spaced

 

•             12-point Times New Roman font

 

•             Title page

 

•             Running head and page numbers

 

•             No sources: Your papers in this class will be run through Turnitin to check for any use of any source beyond your own mind and experiences and to check for plagiarism.