Cause and Effect (Why do marriages between teenagers fail more often than marriages between people in other age groups?)

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Develop
an essay developed by analyzing causes or effects or the prompt

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Decide
on something you care about so that the narration is a means of communicating an
idea

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Include characters,
conflict, sensory details as appropriate to help your essay come alive

·       
Create
a sequence of events
in a plot to
support the logical flow of your essay

·       
Develop
an enticing title

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Use
the introduction to pull the reader into your singular experience

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Avoid
addressing the assignment directly (Don’t write “I am going to write about…” – this
takes the fun out of reading the work!)

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Let
the essay reflect your own voice (Is your voice serious? Humorous? Matter-of-fact?)

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Avoid
“telling” your reader about what happened. Instead, “show” what happens using active
verbs and/or concrete and descriptive nouns and details.