Blog 4A
Katie Smith
English 1010
Professor Marchant
21 September 2015

      Cause and effect structure is immediate consequences from your actions. Cause and effect describes how something is happening. It helps us analyze how something happens and why it happens through a series of chain reactions. In cause and effect their are contributing causes, main causes and the primary effect. Contributing causes are things that lead up to cause and effect, like background information. The main causes are the key events that have a primary effect which lead to more cause and effect chain reactions. And lastly the primary effect describes what has happened, why, and what is going to happen later on. Another factor that usually plays in to this process is ripple effects. Things that happen as a result of the primary effect, or effects down the line.

    A benefit of using cause and effect is that it helps you identify causes that contribute to an effect. And can help you to identify areas for improvement. It also demonstrates how we are affected by our actions, and the chain reactions that can happen as a result of one decision. This can help an audience better understand what events caused what results. Cause and effect can also help the audience analyze and understand the logical order of things. When analyzing a paper the best way to identify the cause and effect is to look for background information that leads up to a decision. Next look for the effect that decision had, and what chain reactions occurred because of it.