Cause and Effect

• Cause-and-effect text

  allows you to understand human experiences and analyze complex phenomena
• Cause

  is what brings about something to occur
• Effect

  describes the result or the consequences of an action
• 3 Classifications of Cause-and-effect text

  1. Informative
  2. Persuasive
  3. Speculative
• Informative

  • aims to explain the relationship between two ideas
  • thoroughly explains an event
  • educate and gives information to readers
• Persuasive

  • convince and influence the readers into believing what the writer is saying
• Speculative

  • it only suggests possibilities
  • does not have firm evidence
  • opinion, guess, inference
  • what happens if this occurs?