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