Cause-and-Effect Essay Writing Assignment and Options

Overview of the Essay Assignment

The ability to understand and examine cause-and-effect is a beneficial skill that you will take forward with you into your career.

This cause-and-effect essay is a personal response and can include your own personal opinions, reactions, examples, and observations. You may use personal pronouns in your essay, but do not rely heavily on them (avoid ‘I think that’ or ‘I believe that’ etc.). Remember to avoid using unclear pronouns (e.g. you, we, our). Clarify your meaning and be specific.

For this essay, you have access to three news article sources for you to use as supporting evidence. You must use at least two of the given sources, or you may choose to use all of the sources. A minimum of two citations (either direct quotes or paraphrases) is required.

Some of the links provided will prompt you to log into Seneca’s library webpage using your Seneca issued credentials. In the event that the links provided below do not work, search for the title and author of the article though a Google search or on Seneca’s library web page.

You must carefully construct your essay with a strong structure – it is very easy to get off track with a response paper! Remember to include all the main components of a strong essay (thesis statement, topic sentences, supporting evidence, and conclusion).

The final essay should be written in full sentences, should have a full introductory paragraph, a few body paragraphs (3-5) and a concluding paragraph. Refer to the slides posted for academic writing as a refresher. Ensure you include a reference section at the end of your essay in which you cite all the references you have made in your essay. Strive to paraphrase sections of the articles you have chosen, and rely sparsely on direct quotations. Submit in the assignments tab, under the final essay assignment.

Option 1:

Examine the effects of workplace trends on one of the following groups: students, small business owners, consumers, or franchisees/ corporations.  Are these effects more beneficial or harmful to the selected group?

Option 2:

Consider the effects of the changing workplace in a larger context. How can the public influence the government action? Is this influence beneficial or harmful? How does the changing landscape affect how local employees interact with people globally, and what might the ramifications be on a larger scale?

Articles:

1. The Most Unexpected Workplace Trend Coming in 2020: the Return of the Liberal Arts Major: A

host of experts are arguing that liberal arts majors are about to make a major rebound BY: Jessica Stillman

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/2020-workplace-trends-liberal-arts-major-hiring.html?fbclid=IwAR3rtkYMyHkeMszU-M2wmtdlv0ghPufsmACFQ_1MM_6EcFE-TYf842FnmXQ

2. Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life; The office: AN ANALYSIS BY: Claire Cain Miller and Sanam Yar

https://advance-lexis-com.libaccess.senecacollege.ca/document/index?crid=ec0c9aca-309c-44c4-af1f-34e279988fe9&pdpermalink=a27b3b37-c54b-4d4c-81b5-ef262dbe0d66&pdmfid=1516831&pdisurlapi=true

3. PERSONAL FINANCE; Gen Y work woes: Going up a down escalator; Globe online survey shows a significant number of millennials aren't prospering in today's economy, with job quality the No. 1 issue BY: Ro Carrick

https://advance-lexis-com.libaccess.senecacollege.ca/document/index?crid=84d5fd82-ee08-44ac-ad0e-508cbd434ef1&pdpermalink=4eed6bdf-97e5-4574-b3b4-acfac410f29e&pdmfid=1516831&pdisurlapi=true