A cause-effect essay

Our learning outcome for this week was to understand about making a cause-effect essay.

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The cause and effect essay is a paper that looks at the reasons for an specefic topic and its consequences. They are one of the most common forms of organisation in academic writing. In class, the teacher introduced us to three types of structures. Besides, we did some exercises in padlet which were really helpful for my understanding.

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