How to Write a Cause & Effect Essay on Job Stress
Whether it is for a high school or university project, writing an essay is always a hard task. The most difficult part doesn't come in the research stage, when you have to collect as much valuable information as you can. As a matter of fact, analyzing a great amount of information can be tiresome. However, there are different kinds of essays; and each one works with a different template. Cause and Effect essays talk about the possible reasons for a certain trend or phenomenon; in this case, job stress.
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Instructions
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Use the Internet, academic databases and every other source of information available to find background data about your topic. For this essay, focus on a certain aspect of stress. Therefore, you will look for suitable information about job stress on business corporations or job stress in prestigious universities.
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Analyze the information you have collected and select the most relevant ideas. Find out about the effects (both negative and beneficial), that your topic has on people.
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Make a rough draft of your essay before writing it straight away. Use one-line sentences to describe paragraphs. Create the structure of the essay. Remember that this doesn't have to be strictly followed. This is just a sketch, and it can be changed.
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Write the introduction. This must engage the reader's attention. Remember that in this type of essay you must limit yourself to relevant points. There are hundreds of causes that produce job stress and hundreds of effects that derive from stress. Choose the most relevant ones. Make sure the chosen causes and effects are correlated.
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Divide the chosen causes and effects in different paragraphs. Good organization is significantly important for an essay. So are spelling and grammar. The outline of your prose must be clear. Try not to use complicated words that might baffle the reader.
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Finish the essay by recapping the causes and effects you previously discussed in no more than four short sentences. The purpose of the essay is to give a better understanding to readers. If your essay was brief, do not just repeat the same ideas.
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Skim your essay to see if a reader will understand the main idea. Read it aloud and check carefully for any kind of mistake. Be careful with cumbersome sentences. Polish your essay by correcting all grammatical and spelling mistakes.
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Tips & Warnings
Use topic sentences at the beginning of every paragraph. A topic sentence describes the aim and purpose of that paragraph.
Ask a friend to proofread your essay. More than often, the writer might not be conscious of his own mistakes.
Try not to shift topics when writing different paragraphs. Stick to the same topic you initially chose, but give different points of view.
References
- Photo Credit Stress image by Yvonne Bogdanski from Fotolia.com
