Saturday, October 12, 2019

Sample Argument Breakdown (including both positives and negatives)

Cause/Effect (positives and negatives)

Example Causal Argument THESIS: Social media has impacted career opportunities, family togetherness, and personal privacy in American culture through positive and negative outcomes.


Body paragraph 1: Sample Topic Sentence (that establishes clearly a causal analysis sub-point): Social media [key point focus] has impacted career pursuits in the American culture [1st sub-point to argue social media affecting job pursuits]. Positive: able to locate and apply for job openings across the United States. Negative: posts to Facebook, Instagram, and other social networks cost Americans career opportunities through company searches online.


Body-paragraph 2: Sample Topic Sentence (that establishes clearly a causal analysis sub-point): Social media has affected the culture of the American family, unity, and togetherness [2nd sub-point to argue family bonds and closeness has been affected by social media]. Positive: Families spread across the United States can communicate through social media and video conferencing. Negative: Families often lack intimacy and communication due to addictions to social media as a monopolizing of time: while driving, at meals, and during traditional ‘family-time’.


Body-paragraph 3: Sample Topic Sentence (that establishes clearly a causal analysis sub-point): Social media has altered the culture of American privacy [3rd sub-point to argue social media has affected personal privacy]. Positive: Negative:

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Essay 3 Cause/Effect Argument

Design and Development Handouts

· Know the Guidelines: Cause/Effect Argument Essay Writing—view the planning, outlining, and development handouts for the cause/effect essay.

· Sample thesis for a causal argument: this handout shows a sample cause/effect THESIS, the break-down of that THESIS, and how the essay would be structured to develop and argue the THESIS.

· Flow, Length, and Content of a Typical Body-paragraph: a specific break-down of what is expected in a well-developed body-paragraph of an argument paper.

· Need Ideas for Cause/Effect Essay??: this handout provides 'spring-board' articles and images to help you think through how you feel about the topic and possible cause/effect relationships. These are not scholarly sources. They are simply readings to help you understand different ideas surrounding the issue.