Your Cause Paragraphs are getting much better. Besides, you can decode correction codes and correct your mistakes. This week, we have had the chance to write Cause Paragraphs and edit our own and each other's paragraphs.
Let me remind you what to pay attention to when we are required to do editing.
Ask yourselves the following questions:
Topic Sentence - Does you paragraph have a main idea?
Supporting Ideas - Are there at least two causes that support the topic sentence?
- Are there appropriate connecting words?
- Are there supporting details that explain and/or give examples?
Concluding Sentence - Does your concluding sentence start with an appropriate connecting word?
OR
- Does it summarize the main points of the paragraph?
OR
- Does it paraphrase the topic sentence or provide an appropriate final comment?
Grammar - Check for missing/incorrect prepositions
- Check for missing/incorrect articles
- Check for appropriate use of verb forms
- Check for appropriate use of connecting words
Vocabulary -Check for connecting verbs and phrases related to cause paragraphs
-Check for appropriate word choice/word form
-Check for overused words
You may use some online dictionaries, which will be a great help while writing, some of which are given below:
www.tureng.com
www.visuword.com
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary
www.Idoceonline.com
www.thesaurus.com
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Have a look at presentation below to see some invaluable vocabulary, phrases, and examples.
Cause effectparagraphpractice from hacersivil
Your progress is quite good. We finished Cause Paragraphs and started Chapter 3-Effect Paragraphs.
In this unit, we have focused on some previous words and phrases such as
cause negative effect
lead to adverse influence
result in positive impact
bring about significant
give rise to dramatic
Remember that there are different ways to construct your sentences with the same meaning
e.g: Workaholism is a serious type of addiction that leads to numerous problems.
Work addiction has negative impacts on people's lives.
Working overtime affects various aspects of people's lives negatively.
Your progress is quite good. We finished Cause Paragraphs and started Chapter 3-Effect Paragraphs.
In this unit, we have focused on some previous words and phrases such as
cause negative effect
lead to adverse influence
result in positive impact
bring about significant
give rise to dramatic
Remember that there are different ways to construct your sentences with the same meaning
e.g: Workaholism is a serious type of addiction that leads to numerous problems.
Work addiction has negative impacts on people's lives.
Working overtime affects various aspects of people's lives negatively.
In this unit, we also focused on Mind Mapping before writing a paragraph. Besides, as you may know it is important to use the Editing Checklist after writing.
Effect Paragraphs are similar to Cause Paragraphs but you need to pay attention to wording.
See the examples in the presentation below:
Effect Paragraphs are similar to Cause Paragraphs but you need to pay attention to wording.
See the examples in the presentation below:
Write an effect paragraph on one or more of the topics on page 58 by 21.12.2014 Sunday evening.
Have a nice weekend:)

In what ways does an addiction to gambling harm a person's life?
YanıtlaSilAddiction to gambling harms a person's life with various ways. First of all gambler persons spend less time for family.For example while he is supposed to eat dinner with his family,he prefers to gamble.Secondly while they punting,they lost of money after than they borrowing Money from someone else.For include he wants to gamble but he cannot because he has no Money left so he ask for Money from his friend.Finally he has problems with his family, thus he is always stressful and he has some health problems.To sum up because of the reasons the habit of gambling has effect on person's life.
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In what ways does an addiction to gambling harm a person's life?
YanıtlaSilAn addiction to gambling harms a person's life in several ways.To begin with gambling addiction influences human's health.For example,gamble something away brings about psycholojical problems.People who gamble are nervous wreck,so people's family life is affected negatively,besides divorses can be increase.Other result is lying.When people gamble,people sometimes lose money.Then ,they barrow money from their friends,relatives,and people who they know.While people who gamble barrow money ,they say ''I will give back money a short time.'',but they do not give back money .They become a lier.Finally people who gamble have a less time for their family and work.They spend their time to gamble.They become a unsuccesful person on tehir job,bad father and husband /wife in their family.To sum up ,gumbling affect human's lives adversely.
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There are many results of using a cell phone too much, but three of them are the most important causes of using cell phone.Firstly using cell phone when driving leads to car accidents.Drivers lose their attention because of their cell phones.Besides, they may use their cell phones with their hands in the car , so they cannot control the car exactly or they cannot be fast in a emergency situation.Secondly, many people do not sleep enough because of their cell phones.They cannot let their cell phones go before sleeping.They always want to check all applications again and again and that becomes a habit.Lastly, cancer risk is one effect of using cell phone.People hold their cell phones in their hands so many time in a day time. They carry their phones in their pockets and that's mean cell phones are always stuck on their body. Also, when you talking, your cell phone so close to your brain. To conclude, using cell phone leads to many bad things for you.
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What are some of the negative results of using a cell phone too much?
YanıtlaSilThere are many negative result of using a cell phone too much.First of all,there are healty problems.If you see screen too much , your eyes are blurred.Also,radio frequency that is created electromagnetic waves by mobile phone numbs human brain;consuquently,it increases cancer risk.Secondly,using a cell phone too much takes our time.So that internet , you entry social networking such as facebook,instagram,and twitter.You look people's profile and post photo and note.Besides, you downland type of application.These attract you.For instance, you play interesting games much time.One of the results is inability to focus.Because of clutter of attention you might not understand lessons and don't focus on your work.Thus,you can not succeed in life.Moreover, inabilty to focus causes car accidents.In brief,using a cell phone too much causes several destructions.
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YanıtlaSilWhat are the effects of having a shopping addiction ?
YanıtlaSilThere are many effects that are about having a shopping addiction . Firs of all , unhappiness occurs in people . They want to buy when they see things. But then , none of purchased things do not satisfy them , because because they see new things and want to buy them. Therefore , shopping addicts would not be happy . Secondly , their debts gradually increase . This is so bad habit that they only want to buy anything . Consequently , money that they spend on their shop further increases . Finally , relationship problems arise . They constantly think about shopping , so they can not communicate with other people . Anymore ,they encounter psychological problems . In epitome , having a shopping addiction cause unhappiness, debts increase ,and relationship problems.
Using a cell phone too much has some negative results.First of all, using a cell phone increases cancer risk.Cell phones release radiation.Radiation affects us negatively;therefore, the probability of being cancer increases.The another result is that using a cell phone may lead to car accidents.If someone who is driving a car uses mobile phone, he cannot focus on the road,so he may hit someone or something,The last negative result is sleep loss.When some people goes to bad to sleep, they want to hang out with the mobile phone a little time, but after they begin using their cell phone, they couldn't quit using the mobile phone.Thus, they couln't sleep until late hour, it lead to sleep loss.All in all, overusing a mobile phone bring about cancer, car accidents, and sleep loss
YanıtlaSilThere are several possible consequences of overusing credit cards.First of all, saving money is more harder when you use credit card because you do not know amount of money that you paid.Thus, you buy something that you don't need.You most likely do not save money, when you use credit card.Secondly,you can get into debt, and you can not afford your and your family's needs. if you can not afford them, you will feel helpless.you can fall into depression.Finally, if you got into debt, you must find extra money than you have,so it means you must take on an extra job.All in all, health,family,financial problems can appear when you use credit cards a lot.
YanıtlaSilThere are some important results of using cell phone too much. Firstly, using a cell phone increases users health problems. For instance, it incerases stress levels. Besides, cell phone use can be a risk mental health issues in young adults. Also, it causes eye vision problems since the screens on mobile devices tend to be smaller than computer screens which means you are more likely to squint and strain your eyes while reading a text message. Secondly, it causes focusing problems. For instance, in class, once you check your cell phone, it gets harder to focus on the teacher. Also, use of a cell phone could affect your realitonship with people around you. Like, when you are having a conversation with your friends it is better to have an eye contact with them than checking your phone. Lastly, most of people are addicted to their cell phones and while driving people want to check their cell phones which coul cause important accidents at the end. In brief, addicted to cell phone has many dangerous results.
YanıtlaSilIn what ways does an addiction to gambling harm a person`s life?
YanıtlaSilGamble addiction effects people`s life worst.There are three effects of that.Firstly,when people start to gambling,they can`t give up easily.They gamble more and more,so they spend less time for family and work.They prefer gamble instead to family and work.Secondly,they lying.When their family want spend time with them at their holiday,they are lying to their family because they want gamble.Besides,when they have to work,they can lie to their boss because of gamble.Finally,People always want to win gambling ;nevertheless,they can`t win.When they lose gambling,they lose their money;therefore,they borrow money from their friends.They also lie to their friends for borrow money.Shortly,gambling addition is harmful to people`s life.
Using a cell phone too much causes some negative effects.There are three reason of overusing a cell phone.One reason is that risk of car accident increase because of people who use a cell phone too much because a cell phone cause sleep loss,and ıt cause that people loss their vision.Another reason is that cell phones amit radiation.Therefore,people be cancer as a result of radiation.For example,according to the research the more use cell phones,the more increase risf of cancer.A final reason is that people do not have a socıal lıfe,and people spend their all time with cell phones,so people can not have frıends.After that physcoligy affects bad.In short,overusıng a cell phone causes some bad effects people's life.
YanıtlaSilOverusing cell phones can couse some negative results.Fırstlu,using a cell phone too much is harmful for health.If you use phone too much,you are exposed to radiation.Hence; your cancer ris increase.Secondly, asociality is one of the results of using cell phones too much.For instance, people use everywhere so they forget to talk face to face. Also this stuation cause asociality. Fınally, one of the conclusion of overusing cellphones is sleepless. According to resarch, using cell phones before sleep can increase melotonin secrotory, thus it causes slepless.All in all, cancer risk, asociality and sleep loss are negative results of using cellphones too much
YanıtlaSilUsing a cell phone too much causes a lot of serious problems. First of all, some car accidents is the result of using phone while driving. Drivers cannot see the dangers due to looking phone screen. Moreover, drivers' concentration is borken because they focus on the phone. For these reasons, using phone while driving pulls death invitation. Secondly, it leads to some health problems. Cell phones work with microwaves to establish connection with other phones, and microwaves result in tumor and DNA damages. Besides, keeping on hand the phones for a long time gives rise to muscle problems. Finally, it consume productive hours. People prefer using the cell phones to travelling, meeting with friends, and even sleeping. In brief, many problems is caused by using cell phones too much.
YanıtlaSilThere are the effects of having a shopping addiction. First of all , people want to buy a lot of things. Specially womans like shopping. They want to go shopping when they are both sad and happy. People buy good and nice products , but they maybe do not have to use that they bought everything. People buy it becuse they only like. They have got a lot of unnecessary things. Secondly , people can be unhappinesss because of shopping addiction. People like a dress , shoes and they want to buy it very much , but it can has not got size for them. If they cannot buy it , they get sad. They think the product in all day. They cannot have a nice day. Finally , people can have debts. Although some people like expensive thing , they want to buy it. They use credit card , but they did not pay debts of credit card. To conclude , people do not realise what they do because of shopping addiction.
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