WHAT CAUSES

THE EFFECTS
DEFINITION AND PURPOSE

A cause and effect essay looks at the reasons (or causes) for
something, then discusses the results (or effects).

Its purpose is to determine how various phenomena are related to each

other.
GENERIC STRUCTURE

There are two structures of cause effect essay:

1) block structure and 2) chain structure.
LANGUAGE FEATURES
Cause and effect structure words are transition signals which show the cause and effect relationships.

HINT: for causes -> why does this happen?

for effects -> what happens because of this?

It is important to be clear which is the cause (or reason) and which is the effect (or result), and to use the
correct transition word or phrase.

Remember that a cause happens first, and the effect happens later.
TRANSITION WORDS