Cause/Effect Essay: Assignment Description
Cause/Effect Essay: Assignment Description
Cause/Effect Essay: Assignment Description
Assessment grade: 15% Due date: Check Moodle
- Choose one of the following topics and write a Cause and / or Effect essay between 500 and 700 words long.
- Causes and effects of an economic recession
- Causes and effects of language endangerment
- Causes and effects of plagiarism
- Effects of genetically-modified food
- Effects of the internet on students’ study habits/skills
- Effects of social pressure
- Use at least three scholarly sources and one or more reliable popular sources.
- Organize the body paragraphs in your essay as follows:
| Topics 1-3 | Topics 1-3 | Topics 4-6 | ||
| BLOCK MODEL | CHAIN MODEL | THEMATIC MODEL | ||
| Introduction | Introduction | Introduction | ||
| Cause paragraphs (any number) | Cause 14Effect 1 (related to each other) | Effect 1 | ||
| Cause 24Effect 2 (related to each other) | Effect 2 | |||
| Effect paragraphs (any number) | ||||
| Cause 34Effect 3 (related to each other) | Effect 3 | |||
| Conclusion | Conclusion | Conclusion |
Materials:
- Sample Essay 1 (Causes and Effects) (Urban Air Pollution) (With citations and references)
- Sample Essay 2 (Cause and Effects) (Women-Going-to-Work)
- Sample Essay 3 (Causes only) (Rebels)
- Sample Essay 4 (Effects-only) (Plastic Surgery)
- Sample Essay 5 (Effects only) (Growing up with Rules)
- Cover page
- Checklist
Assessment Criteria:
| APA mechanics: Cover page, spacing, font size, indentation, capitalization | 5 |
| Introduction: hook, general background, transition and thesis | 10 |
| Supporting paragraphs | 15 |
| Conclusion | 5 |
| Coherence and cohesion | 10 |
| Lexical resource (including, range, collocations and spelling) | 10 |
| Grammatical resources (range, accuracy, punctuation) | 20 |
| Paraphrasing | 10 |
| Intext-citation and references | 15 |
