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"When reasonable people could disagree over cause and effects, you will want to go further, arguing for one interpretation over others."

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Once you consider what your purpose is in your writing and understand your subject, you can draft a thesis statement to express the main idea of your analysis.

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Before rushing into stating the causes and effects, stop a quick moment to consider what your PURPOSE might be .

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Division or analysis to separate the flow of events into causes

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A statement framed early can help direct your later thinking

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Cause and effect essays focus more on unique events and reasons why they happened.

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Whether your subject is personal or impersonal, make sure it is manageable.

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"Your toughest job in writing a cause-and-effect essay may be figuring out what caused what."

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Act, Actors, Scene, Agency/Purpose: What, Who, Where/When, Why

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Do not confuse cause and effect with process analysis

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Pentad: act, actor, scene, agency, purpose.

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"For what purpose did the person act?

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Do not confuse coincidence with cause (Post Hoc).

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To help find causes of actions and events, use Burke's pentad: act, actors, scene, agency, purpose

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Know your purpose of writing before writing a list of cause and effects

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avoid using the post hoc fallacy (A happened before B, therefore A must've caused B)

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When seeking remote causes, only go as far back as necessary.

When there are multiple causes, weight them and see which has the most importance, relatively.