Question.3084 - Cause and Effect Essay Assignment Length: Three full pages Purpose: To analyze the causes and effects of a specific event in your life Audience: Your instructor and classmates (an academic audience) Genre: Academic essay Directions: 1. Think of a specific, important event in your life. You can choose an event of your own, or you can use one of my example topics. If you choose your own event, you must let me know what you are planning to write about before you begin writing. a. Suggested Topics: i. Your first kiss/first date ii. Getting a good grade (or a bad grade) on an assignment iii. Taking a risk (doing something dangerous or new) iv. Being involved in an accident/being injured v. Experiencing the death (or birth) of a loved one vi. A successful (or unsuccessful) job interview b. Forbidden Topics: i. Sporting events ii. Graduations iii. Travel/family vacations/study abroad iv. Losing something valuable (your wallet, your phone, a person, etc.) v. Running out of gas vi. Getting a bad haircut/bad tattoo/bad piercing/bad body modification 2. Write an introduction that begins with a hook and explains your topic in general terms. 3. Write a thesis statement that does the following: a. Indicates your topic and main points b. Indicates your plan to discuss causes and effects c. Indicates your plan to make an argument 4. Write at least four paragraphs in the main body of your essay. Remember to include topic sentences and transitional sentences. a. Narrate the causes leading up to your event. Remember to include lots of descriptions of your senses and emotions. b. Narrate what happened during the event. c. Narrate the effects leading from your event. Remember to include lots of descriptions of your senses and emotions. d. Make an argument about which part of the experience was the most important. What part of the experience taught you the most? What did you learn from the experience? 5. Write a concluding paragraph. Remember to restate your thesis, summarize your argument, and leave your reader thinking. Grading Rubric: Arguing Causes and Effects: You must submit a copy of this rubric along with your paper! Description of Requirements Point Value Score and Instructor’s Notes Content, Fluency, and Tone Vocabulary is precise and academically appropriate. Sentences are meaningful and support the thesis. Causes, effects, and argument are clearly identifiable, and one specific life event is identified. Tone and point of view are academically appropriate. Essay structure is followed. 100 Coherence and Organization There is an appropriate introduction and a thesis statement. Paragraphs have appropriate topic sentences. Paragraphs include sufficient details to support the topic sentences. Transitional words are used to tie sentences together. Paragraphs include transitional sentences. There is an appropriate conclusion paragraph. Paragraphs include important details and exclude unnecessary information. 75 Proofreading Essay is free of typos, spelling errors, sentence boundary issues (including fragments and run-ons), verb tense errors, and subject and verb errors. Punctuation (including commas and semicolons) is used appropriately. Heading and title are in MLA format. 75 Total:
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Introduction Accidents become a lesson in our life when it teaches you the virtues of planning and doing work in a systematic manner. When I got injured in my life, it healed my bad habit of being negligent. My habit of being negligent was huge problem for me and my parents but I managed to get over the problem when I got injured and learnt a lesson. Negligence was the hallmark of my habits as I was perpetually late and unplanned in all my life activities including school, sports and social activities. One accident changed my negligent attitude and made me a better person. In a way that accident healed me. Thesis statement Accidents just do not cause injuries but they have the potential to heal our bad habits like it healed mine. It was seen that one accident changed the way I thought, planned and carried out things. Getting injured seriously in accident taught me a lesson and healed my negligent habits. Events leading up to the accident I was completely negligent even while leading up to the event. I was around 13 years of age and had just returned back home after a day of being punished in school for forgetting to submit class assignments. The teacher had lost her patience as that was the seventh time in a gap of just four months that I had forgotten to either do my assignments or submit them on time. She considered me to be habitually negligent. Upon getting back from school I received a call from my pals to get ready in half an hour for a cycling expedition. I hurriedly looked for my cycling helmet and knee-guard. I had stashed it away at the back of the washing machine and had forgotten its whereabouts. Therefore, I was not able to locate it in time. My friends arrived before the appointed time and I left my home without the necessary precautions for the cycling expedition. I had given little care to the concerns of my friends who had asked me to have proper safety gears. Accident: Details The causes that lead to the accident could be pinned on my negligent behavior. We started the cycling expedition from out home towards the main market area which some 3 miles away. The last leg of the journey involved atleast half-a-mile journey by the side of a speeding highway. We clearly wanted to have some fun running our cycles on the open highway and while trying to match our speed with cars and other vehicles speeding past us. It was all fine till the time we were making our way past the last crossing on the highway to turn towards the path leading to the market place. At the turn I turned around to gaze at a car while still cycling ahead. The car which attracted me was the latest model of a hit car series and was an object of my wonderment, so I could not desist myself from turning back to look at it even while turning the cycle. In the process I banged into the cycle of my immediate neighbor. Both of us were flung in air and were thrown almost 25 feet away and hit the tough pavement of the road. My friend escaped any major injuries. Clearly his helmet and knee-cap saved his body from major injuries. But he still suffered enough injuries to remain hospitalized for over five days. My completely unprotected body was inflicted with serious injuries on the head, arms and knee as I was dragged along the hard road surface by my moving cycle. I had to remain in hospital for over a month. However, my worries were far from over. Effects of the accident The impact of event was disastrous both physically and mentally. Mid-term exams were due to start in a week’s time. I had to undergo the pain of skipping the exam just because of my injuries. Not sitting for the exams was a painful task as I really wanted to perform well that time and win a video game from my father. Instead, I had to undergo extremely painful therapies and medicine course for the time I was in the hospital. My negligent attitude was costly for my academic performance. I remember shedding tears of anguish when my friends came to hospital to meet me and shared the question papers of the examinations. My neighborhood friend performed poorly in the examinations. He was bed-ridden before the days of the exam and hence could not revise his lessons and did miserably in the exams. He suffered on account of my negligence. The effect of this feeling was the worst on me and I blamed myself for his condition. Experiences of the accident and its effect The accident and the injuries gave me an important lesson to remain alert and diligent at all occasions. The injuries on the body made me realize how being negligent could harm me and others around me. Had I been careful to keep my helmets and knee-guard in its proper place and I would not have gone cycling unprotected. Then, had I been careful on road and kept my eyes infront and not look behind to watch the car, I would have avoided hospital terms for myself and my friend. My friend suffered for my fault and I finally realized the importance of being diligent in life. Finally, I experienced as to why my parents and teachers were so strict to inculcate diligence within me. The accident had healed my negligent attitude. Conclusion Getting injured seriously in accident taught me a lesson and healed my negligent habits. The event of negligently going on a cycling expedition, getting injured seriously, making my innocent friend suffer and then undergo the pain of not sitting for an examination which I had been preparing for over 4 months, finally made me realize that I could not remain a negligent person. That accident affected my body and mind and it has changed my attitude and made me a more diligent person. Accidents and injuries surely have the healing capacity to change behavior and attitude in life.More Articles From English