WRITER RESPONSE: CAUSE/EFFECT

1. Have you narrowed and focused your material as much as possible?

2. Have you considered all possibilities before assigning real or ultimate causes or effects?

3. Have you shown connections between ideas by using transitions and key words?

4. Have you supported all inferences with concrete evidence?

5. Are you as objective as possible in your analysis so that you don’t distort logic with personal biases?

6. Do you qualify your assertions to avoid overstatement?

7. Is your thesis state clearly at the outset of your paper?

8. Have you accomplished your purpose as effectively as possible for your particular audience?

9. Have you used logical reasoning throughout the essay?

10. Have you searched for the real as opposed to the immediate causes in each case?

11. Have you stated clearly the conclusions that can be drawn from your paper?

12. Is your voice fair and impartial?