PA#7 – Cause and effect

Blog the following by Wednesday and bring a copy to class that day:

Identify a quality or issue that helps to identify Ohio Wesleyan and discuss one of its effects. Get very specific here. A quality might be OWU's emphasis on public service. An issue might be the rule that first-year students are not permitted to have a vehicle on campus.

In the first sentence, mention the the issue, but don't dwell on it. Presumably, you will have discussed the issue in some detail in a previous paragraph. Instead, in the first sentence identify the issue (the cause), and describe the effect (one of many) that you intend to discuss. Then, discuss that effect. Prove to the reader that it truly results from the cause.

C & E paragraph moves often but not always look like the following:

5 Topic sentence (a reference to the cause and a statement of the effect)

4 Explanation of the effect

3 Significance of the effect (how many, how much?)

2 Evidence to support significance

3 Impact of the effect (benefit or harm arising from the effect)

2 Evidence to support impact

3 ? Another impact of the effect (benefit or harm arising from the effect)

2 Evidence to support impact