The Cause and Effect Paragraph
Untitled Example 1
Cassava is the staple food of millions of
people in Africa, Asia and South and Central America. Its swollen tuberous root can be boiled and
mashed or grated to produce a meal, known as “farinha” in Brazil and “garri” in
Nigeria, which can be cooked in small cakes.
The root is also the source of the manufactured commodity, tapioca. A plot of cassava can be insurance against
famine, because the crop can be left in the ground for two or three years
without deterioration of the tubers and be almost immune to locust attack. But recent findings suggest that cassava may
be responsible for birth defects. It has
serious disadvantages. The tubers
consist almost entirely of starch and are particularly low in protein, so
enforced reliance on cassava leads to serious malnutrition. To make matters worse, some varieties, when
grown under certain conditions of soil and climate, develop a high prussic acid
content and become extremely poisonous to people and livestock if eaten raw. These tubers have to be laboriously prepared
for consumption by prolonged and repeated boiling.
Analyze the paragraph above and fill
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Slaughter on the highways
During the past five years, the number of
Americans killed annually in car accidents has climbed to more than 55,000.
This needless slaughter on streets and highways can be attributed to three
general causes. Mechanical failures, especially those related to faulty brakes
and bald tires, account for a significant number of fatal accidents.
Environmental conditions such as blind comers, narrow streets, heavy fog,
intermittent rain or snow resulting in slippery roads also contribute to the
grisly accident statistics. But without doubt the most frequent reported
factors in car accidents are errors of human judgment all the way from such
follies as excessive speed and drunken driving to such momentary lapses as
failure to signal a return or a change from one lane to another. The man behind
the wheel is often his own worst enemy.
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Language change
There are many reasons why languages change,
but three major causes help illustrate the concept. Initially, various
languages that started from the same parent developed their own uniqueness
after groups of speakers drifted away from one another to establish isolated,
independent communities. Another major cause of language change is the
influence of an interaction with foreign cultures often as a result of military
conquest. A continuing cause for change is rapidly expanding technology and new
systems of communication that bring all cultures and languages into closer
contact with borrowing between languages a common phenomenon in the
contemporary world. All languages change as the experiences of their speaker
change.
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Think
of one example of:
Multiple causes - 1 effect
1 cause – multiple effects
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Pulmonary tuberculosis is caused by infection
of the lungs with the tubercle bacillus.
Pulmonary lesions are due almost entirely to the human form of the
tubercle bacillus, as distinct from the bovine type, which is mainly
responsible for glandular and bovine tuberculosis. The bacilli lodge in the lungs and set up a
chronic inflammation of a specific type.
They produce areas of infiltration which have a characteristic tubercle
formation; hence the name for the organism.
Analyze the
paragraph and fill in the charts. What
discourse markers can be used when we place the EFFECT first and then the
CAUSE? What discourse markers can be
used when we place the CAUSE first and then the EFFFECT?
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HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT – CAUSE
AND EFFECT paragraph
Write an outline FOR A CAUSE AND EFFECT PARAGRAPH. AFTER WRITING YOUR OUTLINE, START DEVELOPING
YOUR PARAGRAPH.
First, decide whether
you’re going to write a MULTIPLE CAUSES – 1 effect paragraph of vice versa.
Outline the PROCESS
paragraph (USE ONE IDEA)
Topic
sentence: The process of
_____________________ includes 4 main steps.
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WHO IS EDGAR ALLAN POE?
SEE POE'S POEM ANNABEL LEE AND WRITE A CAUSE AND EFFECT PARAGRAPH USING THE MAIN THEME OF THE POEM.
SEE POE'S POEM ANNABEL LEE AND WRITE A CAUSE AND EFFECT PARAGRAPH USING THE MAIN THEME OF THE POEM.
