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Shan (engl)
Week 6 Forum: Cause and Effect Topic Selection
Forum Goal: Choose a topic for Essay #3 and explain why you chose it
Choose a topic for Essay #3, Writing to Show Cause and Effect. For your topic, you do not need to decide on a thesis statement yet, but you do need to consider a topic where you can show cause and effect. Your topic can be chosen from your major academic field or from your work life.
It would be very helpful if you could post research ideas for Essay #3. ExampleSiobhan writes that she wants to explore causes of ADD in children, and Li responds that she might want to try looking in the online library databases for the PSYC articles databases, and Juan notes that when he did a paper for this last semester, he found a great article, and here is the Works Cited citation, so that Siobhan can find the article.
Essay #3: Writing to Show Cause and Effect
Write an academic essay where you show a clear relationship between cause and effect, with a topic chosen from your major field of study, your work life, or your personal life. Here are some examples of topics from your textbook and from successful student papers:
Causes of symptoms or conditions (medicine and healthautism, ADHD, cancer, sports injuries)
Causes of student success or failure, effects of teaching methods or tools (online learning, adult learners, returning students, homeschooling)
Causes of business growth and failure, marketing, business trends
Causes and effects of climate change, ecological change, scientific phenomena
(adapted from Russell 196)
Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words.