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Brannan: A Writer's Workshop
A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays
Bob Brannan, Johnson County Community College
Explaining Causes and Effects

Writing On and Offline

These writing prompts are followed by text boxes for your input. If you are working online and your instructor has given you the go-ahead, you can e-mail your work to him or her by clicking the "E-mail Your Answers" button. You can also e-mail a copy to yourself as a record of your work. If you are working offline, you will have to copy your answers (CTRL-C on most systems) and paste them (CTRL-V) into a text document to retain a record of your work.



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Directions: Visit The Why Files and find an article to read. Then write a short essay that summarizes the causes and effects examined in your article. (For example, an article about Turkey's devastating earthquake might attempt to explain what caused so many buildings to collapse in Turkey or what makes earthquakes so hard to predict.)

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Directions: Pick a movie that you know very well. Freewrite about as many causes and effects as you can, from beginning to end. What sets the plot in motion? What spins the plot around? How do you get to the end? Turn your freewriting into an essay that examines cause and effect in the film you picked.









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