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| 1. The process of cause and effect asks about reasons and outcomes. It helps us to explore the "why" behind events, ideas, people, places, objects, and animals. |
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| 2. Developing a sense for cause-and-effect thinking can help us solve immediate and future problems. |
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| 3. Events are complex, rarely having only one cause or effect. |
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| 4. Closeness in time or space of a cause/effect to an event does not necessarily mean that the cause/effect is significant. |
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| 5. Without carefully considering many causes and effects, we risk oversimplifying. |
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| 6. The writer often determines which causes/effects are most important, based on her topic, interest, and knowledge, and the interest and knowledge of the reader. |
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| 7. The writer is responsible for completing all ideas and making all points. He should not expect his reader to make any but obvious connections. |
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| 8. A topic sentence for a cause or effect paper must interest the reader, mention the topic, and make a clear statement about it (pointing toward causes or effects). |
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| 9. Each major cause or effect should be introduced by a subtopic sentence. |
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| 10. Each sentence in a paragraph should be clearly linked, with subtopic and concluding sentences the most well connected of all. |
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| 11. Writing is never complete until it has gone through several revisions and careful editing. |