Assignment task: Cause and Effect Essay
Instructions:
For your primary post, first reflect on your own drafting. Tell classmates how your essay is going, ask questions, or identify things you would like your peers to look at in your paper. Where are you struggling? What can peer help with?
Purpose: The essay's introduction paragraph should clearly indicate the essay's purpose, but avoid using trite phrases such as "I'm writing about" or "This essay is about." How can the essay's purpose be stated more effectively?
Thesis: The introduction should end with a thesis that summarizes the cause and effect relationship and its significance. Copy and paste the writer's thesis statement. What improvements do you suggest?
Structure and Development: Writers should follow a clear organizational approach-effects of a cause, causes of an effect, or causal chain. Does the essay follow an appropriate approach for the topic? Does each paragraph provide an organized part of the whole essay's argument with clear topic sentences and relevant supporting details, examples, and explanations? In what parts of the essay could the details, examples, and explanations be improved?
Source Support: Writers must cite the source of all information where it appears, even if the source content is paraphrased into the writer's own words. Is every source cited in the text included in the References? Is every source in the References cited in the text?
Conclusion: Reflecting on the entire paper, readers should see an analysis of a cause and effect relationship and a synthesis of all of those details to show the importance, significance, or value of the cause-effect relationship. How well does the essay accomplish its purpose? What is the audience's takeaway?
Rather than copy the questions above into your feedback posts, copy the outline below instead for the sake of brevity.