Week 5: Cause and Effect Essay Outline This week you will begin working on a cause and effect essay that will be completed in Week 6. Please see the Week 5 Cause and Effect Essay Assignment, as well as the Week 5 Lesson, for a list of possible topics and all of the assignment requirements. After selecting a topic, develop a rough outline and share it with the class in your first post. As is noted in our textbook and the Week 5 Lesson, there are three main ways to organize a cause and effect essay. 1. Effects of a cause 2. Causes of an effect 3. Causal chain As a visual reference, here is a simple example of an outline using the effects of a cause approach. You may use this as a basic template. Thesis: Eating junk food, sleeping poorly, and not exercising will negatively impact your health. I. Feel terrible A. Headaches B. Stomach problems II. Look bad A. Weight gain B. Tired and haggard III. Perform poorly A. No energy B. Miss work and school After making your initial post, provide detailed and helpful feedback to the outlines of at least two of your fellow classmates. For example, you may suggest additional effects of the cause, additional causes of the effect, or additional events in the causal chain. Scroll down through the posts to find students who have not yet been replied to first