Cause_and_Effect.pptVIP

Paragraph Development Cause Effect Cause: Tell readers why something happened Effect: Tell readers the results of something Smoking Lung cancer Smoking causes lung cancer. Smoking leads to lung cancer. Smoking results in lung cancer. Because of / Due to smoking, many people get lung cancer. Because he is a heavy smoker, he gets lung cancer. He gets lung cancer because he is a heavy smoker. He is a heavy smoker, so he gets lung cancer. He is a heavy smoker. So he gets lung cancer ( too informal, avoid usage in writhing) * * The signal words of cause-effect so consequently the result of as therefore the effect of thus because of the consequence of since accordingly have an effect on owing to for this reason the reason for due to as a result as a result of hence result in It follows that because so…that the cause of so that now that for fear that thanks to such…that owe…to out of so as…to seeing that Four patterns of cause-effect relationship Single-cause-single-effect pattern Single-cause-many-effects pattern Many-causes-single-effect pattern Causal chain pattern Effect one Cause Effect two Effect three Tree diagram of single-cause-many effects Outline 1: (If we develop in the side-by-side pattern, we have to keep all the effects, whether negative or positive, at the same order, just like the organisation below.) 1. The cause: I went back to college after ten years of being a housewife. 2. Negative effects: a. My husband feels worried; b. My children have less care from their mother than before; c. I do not have enough time to take care of the family. 3. Positive effects: a. My husband is learning to look after his children; b. My children are learning to be m