Essays: cause and effect arguments

The most common effect connectors are:

  • Therefore
  • Therefore
  • So that
  • By
  • So that
  • Because
  • Whereby
  • Therefore

Cause and Effect Examples

Considering that everything in the universe has a cause and a consequence, the examples of cause and effect are countless. In nature, we can observe many examples of cause and effect, such as the following:

  • The rain (cause) wets the street (effect).
  • Fire (effect) is the result of a chemical reaction (cause).
  • The day (effect) is a consequence of the rotation of the Earth on its own axis (cause).

In literature and writing, causes and effects provide a wide variety of options when writing a text, in which the cause and effect argument methodology can be applied. Some ideas to develop in an essay using cause and effect arguments may be:

  • Causes of pollution and its effects on society
  • Origin of the spread of an epidemic and its effects on health
  • Causes of unemployment and its consequences on the economy
  • Reasons for divorce and its effects on the family
  • Causes of stress and its consequences in the human organism