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Essay 4: Writing to Show Cause and Effect
Write an academic essay where you show a clear relationship between cause and effect, with a topic chosen from your major field of study, your work life, or your personal life. Here are some examples of topics from your textbook and from successful student papers:

Causes of symptoms or conditions (medicine and health—autism, ADHD, cancer, sports injuries)
Causes of student success or failure, effects of teaching methods or tools (online learning, adult learners, returning students, homeschooling)
Causes of business growth and failure, marketing, business trends
Causes and effects of climate change, ecological change, scientific phenomena

(adapted from Russell 196)

You may have other ideas and are not sure how to use them in a cause and effect essay.
Feel free to ask about getting ideas to help shape your topic into a Cause and Effect framework.

You will write your essay in the third person.
Use the APUS Online Library article databases, no open web sources.
You need a minimum of three sources for your essay.
Integrate the sources using MLA format.
All essays should be 500-1000 words, in MLA format.
Remember to include your checklist.

Essay 4: Cause & Effect - Writer’s Checklist

Write your responses in complete sentences.

What is the cause or effect you are analyzing in your thesis?
How have you explained the cause-and-effect relationship?
Have I organized my causes and/or effects logically?
Have I concluded my essay effectively?
Identify one change you have made as a result of proofreading your essay?

DISCLAIMER: Originality of attachments will be verified by Turnitin. Both you and your instructor will receive the results.
Attached are a sample template and a grading rubric for Essay 4.