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Title: Cause Essay


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Cause Essay
  • Honoria Balogh

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Cause WHY?
  • Answers
  • Satisfactory
  • Why is the sky dark at night?
  • Tentative
  • Why have acts of violence by women increased?
  • Why have SAT scores declined?
  • Speculative
  • Why do some teaching techniques work and others
    dont?
  • Why is there a decrease in productivity?

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Phenomenon
  • Phenomenon
  • Is something notable about the human condition or
    social order
  • fear or failure
  • high rate of intermarriage among ethnic or racial
    groups
  • opposition to gun control
  • Trend
  • Is a significant change that occurs over some
    period of time, generally months or years.
  • decline in birthrate
  • decline in test scores

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Speculating about causes
  • Describe subject
  • Propose causes
  • Argue that one (or more) cause is the best
    explanation
  • dont have to prove that your explanation is
    right
  • try to convince readers that its plausible
  • support your explanation with examples, facts,
    statistics, anecdotes.

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Writing strategies
  • Analogies
  • Examples
  • Comparisons
  • Statistics
  • Forecasts
  • Anticipate readers objections and alternative
    causes
  • Support each cause argue for them so that
    readers find them plausible and convincing.

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  • Textbook, page 449
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