Discussion of Cause and Effect Essay

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Discussion of Cause and Effect Essay

1.     Why establishing Cause and Effect is important?

2.     What are parts (elements) of the Cause and Effect essay?

3.     What are the steps in writing Cause and Effect?

4.     At what problems do you have to focus when drafting Cause and Effect?

5.     What are major pitfalls in writing Cause and Effect? What do you have to do to avoid them (errors in thinking)?

II. Discussing of the essay by Richard Tomkins “Old Father Time Becomes a Terror”

1.     How does he begin his essay?

2.     What techniques and modes of writing does he use?

3.     How does technology affect our life? State positive and negative effects. Find as many as you can.

4.     What is the thesis statement of the essay “Old Father Time Becomes a Terror”?

5.     What support does Tomkins use?

6.     What rhetoric (consider parallel construction, chiasmus, repetition, rhetoric questions) and stylistic devices does he use (consider analogy, paradox, irony,  similes, etc).

7.     What is Tomkins’s claim? What does he suggest?

III. Based on your answers and chapters 2 and 3 of TSIS summarize Tomkins’s essay expressing your opinion, preferably in a subtle, elegant, not a blunt, straightforward way (for instance, not “I Agree /disagree”), but Tomkins convingsingly proves that or (not just for this essay: “The author seems to contradict him’herself…”