Project - Cause Effect Three Paragraphs

• THere are two kinds of cause-effect:
  • Three reasons why something happened? (three causes)
  • Three things that happened because of one event. (three effects)
  • We are doing three causes

Invention

• Think about some things where you wonder
  • Why does that happen?
  • Why did that happen?
  • Why is that happening?
• Choose one thing for your topic.
  • Make sure it is something we don’t know
  • Make sure there are three causes.

Arrangement

• Paragraph 1 (5 sentences)
  • Thesis statement for Essay (“This essay looks at three reasons why X”
    • e.g. …“three reasons why typhoons are getting worse”
    • e.g. …“three reasons why the conflict in COUNTRY started”
  • Topic sentence for Cause 1 (“The first cause is 名詞/動名詞.”)
  • Detail sentence for Cause 1
  • Detail sentence for Cause 1
  • Detail sentence for Cause 1
• Paragraph 2 (4 sentences)
  • Topic sentence for Cause 2 (“The second cause is 名詞/動名詞.”)
  • Detail sentence for Cause 2
  • Detail sentence for Cause 2
  • Detail sentence for Cause 2
• Paragraph 3 (5 sentences)
  • Topic sentence for Cause 1 (“The third cause is 名詞/動名詞.”)
  • Detail sentence for Cause 3
  • Detail sentence for Cause 3
  • Detail sentence for Cause 3
  • “In summary, there are three main causes of TOPIC - 1, 2, and 3 - of which the most important is 3.”

Tips and help

• I will share a template on Classroom later.
• Try to put your causes in order (e.g. least important to most, or local to global)