This information is offered as review and as resource material for you research project and your exams. The cause-effect pattern is valuable in developing critical thinking skills. Throughout life, we make decisions based on what the final outcomes will be. In other words, we go through a process of trying to determine what the final results of certain actions will be. Those results are effects, outcomes, the end product.
Causes come before an effect.
So, an effect can be the present with a past, or a future with a present. One cause cannot cause another which causes another . . . . . . . . . Each cause must have the potential of bringing about the effect on its own. The introductory paragraph includes the statement of effect and a brief but straightforward summary statement of the causes. The body paragraphs which discuss the causes must contain specifics, statistics, examples, personal experiences or other valid details which will support your ideas.