Tuesday, June 30, 2020
How to Write a Cause and Effect Paper
How to Write a Cause and Effect PaperA good argument for why the best writers in the world continue to write papers of any length is that there is no limit on how many papers they can write. The writer can add a few new angles to an argument, create new information, or find a new angle on an old one without running out of ideas. A short paper may be viewed as having one great idea but a long one can have several ideas in them.How can this be? Well, the answer is in the mechanics of writing itself. There are many areas of writing where the writer is not constrained by the ability to come up with more ideas, but rather can see an angle or two or even two dozen that they didn't realize were possible.For example, let's take this 'Angle One' example again. The writer is trying to explain how auto insurance is not as expensive as it might seem to be and find some reason why drivers should switch from full coverage to liability. However, they find that there is little evidence to suggest th at the rise in liability has hurt the general price of car insurance, and in fact it has likely caused some customers to be more conservative about their insurance payments.As they sit down to write their paper, they go back to their idea of why auto insurance is cheaper than liability: Higher claims costs. This turns out to be an interesting angle, but perhaps not the best angle. The next idea comes to mind, namely, that high claims costs mean that consumers are looking for the lowest price they can find, which means that the reason why liability is cheaper is because it covers all damages except those that are exceptionally expensive.Here, the writer can see a new angle to an argument by using the percentages of claims that insurance companies pay out and dividing the total by the number of claims they have had. Here, there are a lot of gaps in the data, but the writer can use a concept called a t-test to see if the gaps come out to be statistically significant enough to support t heir argument.This example shows that there is a great deal of room for more ideas to be added to a paper than what can be written in a single paragraph. The writer may see that they have an angle in their argument, but the math involved is just too difficult. So, they look for another angle or two or more angles to add to their argument.This leads to another benefit of a short but effective and powerful effect paper: The more you add to an argument, the more you will be able to find good arguments that can show an additional angle or two. You can get into so many other areas of writing that this article just barely scratches the surface. Your imagination is the only limit on how to write a cause and effect paper.This article really focuses on what happens to a paper when the writer has exhausted the three major areas of argumentation: Effect, Ideas, and Narrative. If you want to learn how to write a cause and effect paper, take a look at the method I am going to share with you now.
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