The causal analysis and a note on style: When you write your essay, you will want to avoid the personal pronoun “I.” Learning to eliminate person pronouns (I/me/my/you/we/our) from your writing now will prepare you for other Composition essays and forms of academic writing.Introduction:Make sure you write on one of these topics: Identify a social, environmental, or political problem that is of local, national, or global concern.
Your introduction to your causal analysis essay will clearly introduce the problem that you are writing about. Give general background information on the topic that the reader needs in order to understand the thesis. The introduction is a good place to explain the significance of the problem or issue that you will be discussing in your essay, before you start presenting the causes. Alternatively, you can include a paragraph, after your introductory paragraph, in which you discuss the scope and nature of the problem, rather than putting all that information in your introduction. Notice how, in the introduction to the sample causal analysis essay, the author provides some contextual information about the significance of the problem and the implications. Your thesis statement, which is the final sentence of your introduction, is where you clearly state the problem/issue and the causes of that problem.
Your thesis statement, which is the final sentence of your introduction, is where you clearly state the problem/issue and outline 2-4 causes of that problem. Be aware that you’re writing a causal analysis. This means that you will have to identify why the problem occurs, not the effects of the problem. Reference page
At least two sources should be cited on your reference page. It’s important that you have 1:1 correspondence in your paper. This means that every time you use an in-text citation, the source you are citing must also appear on the reference page at the end of your paper. Similarly, if you include a source on your reference page, the source must appear at least once in your paper as an in-text citation.Does your essay include two credible sources? Are they cited in-text following APA guidelines? Do they also appear on you reference page using APA guidelines? You can find additional formatting information in Appendix B.
Is the essay 3-7 pages? Do you avoid using personal pronouns like I, me, we, you, and our?