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students write their first drafts.
This transparency appears in slightly different form as a blackline master on
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Writing: Drafting Your Cause-and-Effect Essay

Attention-grabbing
statement:
Introduction

Background information
to establish the topic or
situation:

Thesis statement:

First cause or effect and

evidence:
Body

Second cause or effect

and evidence:

Third cause or effect

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and evidence:

Reinforcement of thesis:
Conclusion

Summary of ideas:

Final thought or prediction:

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