Cause-and-Effect EssayLength: no less than 1,000 words, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt font sizeFor this assignment, you will work through the prewriting and drafting stages of your writing pro

Cause-and-Effect Essay

Length: no less than 1,000 words, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt font size

For this assignment, you will work through the prewriting and drafting stages of your writing process in a cause-and-effect essay.

Choose one of the following questions and answer it in an essay developed by analyzing causes or effects. The question you decide on should concern a topic you care about so that the examples are a means of communicating an idea; not an end in themselves.

People and Their Behavior

• How does a person’s alcohol or drug dependency affect others in his or her family?
• Why is a particular television show so popular?
• Why is a college education important?
• Why do marriages between teenagers and those in their early twenties fail more often than marriages between people in other age groups?
• Does the Internet divide people instead of connecting them?