A Prompt For a Cause-and-effect Writing Assignment

An "A" and a "C" paper

Usually, for a cause-and-effect writing assignments in the scientific field, students are expected to be able to apply not only their understanding and knowledge from lessons, but also other evidences from real scientific world to analyze and express some related and reasonable causes or effects of a given topic.

In my opinion, to write an “A” paper, certainly, students should provide both of direct and indirect causes and effects. Besides, they should include some examples and strong scientific evidences related to the topic. Some statistics and citations might be included. Students are supposed to clearly explain and discuss the relationships among those. Writing format is considered as well. An “A” paper should be written into an academic format and easy to understand. Moreover, the content should remain coherent and focus on the topic.

On the contrary, the benchmarks for a “C” paper could be described as follows. Like an “A” paper, a “C” paper should be written into an academic form, and easy to understand. It provides causes and effects and also few scientific evidences but might not be sufficient. Students cannot discuss and picture the relationships between the causes and the effects clearly. The included statistics and citations might not strong enough to demonstrate the relationships. So, the large-scale of an assignment is quite weak.