Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Cause and Effect Essay

Choose from any of the writing prompts on page 380 of your text and explore the ideas in a cause and effect essay. I recommend questions 4 or 6, as they can be accomplished without extensive reseach and rely on information you should be able to supply with observation and your own experience.

Please keep in mind the advice on page 328 about developing a thesis specific for cause and effect essays.

4- How do you account for the popularity of one of the following: email, blogs, hip-hop, video games, home schooling, reality TV, fast food, or sensationalist tabloids. Write an esay considering remote as well as immediate causes for the success of the phenomenon you choose.

6-Write an essay tracing a series of events in your life that constitutes a causal chain. Indicate clearly both the sequence of events and the causal connections among them, and be careful not to confuse coincidence with causality.
 
Due Sunday night at midnight via email attachment (WORD DOCS ONLY please).

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