Notes on Cause and Effect Analysis

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Notes on Cause and Effect Analysis

• Objectives for this Unit
• In this unit, you will learn
• The key terms associated with cause and effect
  analysis.
• Four perspectives for addressing cause and effect
  analysis.
• How to combine two or more perspectives in
  expository writing.

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Notes on Cause and Effect Analysis

• The Purpose of Cause/Effect Analysis
• To explain the critical question of why?
• Why did something happen in the past?
• Why is something happening now?
• Why is something going to happen in the future?

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• Key Definitions
• Event
• An occurrence or happening
• Condition
• A state of being, a set of characteristics or
  attributes

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• Key Definitions

Cause Any event or condition that anticipates
or precipitates another event or condition
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• Key Definitions

Effect Any event or condition that is caused by
another event or condition
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• The difference between a cause and an effect?
• Where on a timeline the condition or event occurs

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• A Timeline

Causes
Effects
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• A Timeline

Causes
Effects
Ultimate
Immediate
Immediate
Ultimate
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• Key Definitions

Ultimate Cause Any event or condition that
anticipates the possibility of another event or
condition sometime in the future
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• Key Definitions

Immediate Cause Any event or condition that
precipitates/ dictates another event or condition
in all of its distinctive features
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• Key Definitions

Immediate Effect Any event or condition that is
precipitated by a previous event or condition
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• Key Definitions

Ultimate Effect Any event or condition that is
only made possible by a previous event or
condition
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• What determines the perspective for development
  of the essay?
• The Audience
• What it wants or needs to know

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• An illustrative story . . .

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Notes on Cause and Effect Analysis

• Three Examples
• A newspaper reader
• A county official
• A case worker

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