1. CAUSE AND EFFECT

2. CAUSE AND EFFECT
You know from experience that one thing leads to another.
A cause makes something happen.
An effect happens, as the result of some event or cause.

3. CAUSE AND EFFECT
When trying to identify cause and effect, ask yourself the following questions:
Why did this happen?
What happened because of this?
Look for signal words and phrases, such as:
affected so
because
therefore
reason
thus
result
why

4. CAUSE AND EFFECT
A causal chain is a series of events in which each event causes another one to happen.
Think of a causal chain as if it were like dominoes falling in a row.
Be careful, though…One event can follow another without having been caused by it.

5. CAUSE AND EFFECT
To identify the sequence in a causal chain, follow these steps:
Look for the first event.
Ask yourself what happened because of that event.
Look for hidden or multiple causes and results.
Use a flowchart structure to record the chain of events.

6. CAUSAL CHAIN EXAMPLE
Cause →
Effect ↓ ↘
Effect → Cause