Expository Writing: Cau and Effect
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尽在掌控Steps for writing a cau and effect essay:过年祝福语简短
Distinguish between cau and effect.
Develop your thesis statement.
Find and organize supporting details.
知识就是财富•Chronological （按年代顺序排列的）
•Order of importance
•Categorical （按类别顺序的）
Using appropriate transitions.
Task 1 Decide whether the following ntences express CAUSE AND EFFECT or things that happened in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.
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Peter and Mark went to the park yesterday. They had barbecue there.
Footsteps echoed down the empty path toward Mary, and she was afraid.
John has a Vitamin C deficiency. He has a skin dia. Bob was very sleepy. He sat nodding in his car. There are a loud knock at the door downstairs. The knock woke me out of a sound sleep.
Susan did not feel well. She did not turn up.
Task 2 Study the following information. In the blank before each ntence, write C if it is a statement of CAUSE or E if it is a statement of EFFECT.
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1. Topic: Music in the United States
___ 1) Popular music showed a definite change in the 1950s—a movement away from the big band sound that had appealed to tho growing up in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
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___ 2) Teenagers became more affluent and thus had the money to buy records by performers like Elvis Presley and Ray Charles.
___ 3) The black population finally had the money in the 1950s to support the singers and musicians they had preferred for years.
___ 4) A large proportion of the adult white population that had been poor during the depression began to rebel against the sophisticated lyrics and sounds of the big band musicians.
