CAUSAL

ANALYSIS
By: Thristan Kim C. Nebres
Are you familiar with these questions?

• Why do you read?

• What literary genres do you prefer?
• What made you love reading?
• Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction?
CAUSAL ANALYSIS
 • MEANS IDENTIFYING THE
CAUSAL CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF A
ANALYSIS PARTICULAR SITUATION,
EVENT, OR PHENOMENON.
 CAUSE & EFFECT

A cause is what prompts An effect is what was

something to happen. yielded after something else
took place.
 ONE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF CAUSAL
ANALYSIS AS A MODE OF PARAGRAPH
DEVELOPMENT IS A PROBLEM-SOLUTION TYPE
OF PAPER. IN THIS EXAMPLE, THE PROBLEM IS
USUALLY THE CAUSE AND THE SOLUTION IS THE
EFFECT.
CAUSAL ANALYSIS

• IT DEALS WITH THE STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP

BETWEEN OR AMONG AT LEAST TWO HAPPENINGS.
• SOME KEYWORDS SUCH AS “THEREFORE”,
“BECAUSE”, “FOLLOWING”, AND “PREVIOUSLY”
GIVE THE READER A CLUE THAT CAUSAL ANALYSIS
IS USED IN A GIVEN PIECE OF WRITING.
CAUSAL ANALYSIS
• A WRITER’S PURPOSE FOR USING CAUSAL ANALYSIS AS
HIS/HER PRIMARY MODE OF PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT CAN
LARGELY BE CATEGORIZED INTO ANY-OR ALL-OF THE
FOLLOWING THREE:
• INFORMATIVE – BASICALLY EXPLAINS SOMETHING.
• PERSUASIVE – TO CONVINCE THE READER TO
BELIEVE WHAT THE WRITER IS SAYING.
• SPECULATIVE – WHICH SUGGESTS POSSIBILITIES.
CAUSAL CHAIN
 CAUSAL CHAIN
• IS A SET OF CAUSE AND
EFFECT THAT LEADS TO
MULTIPLE OTHER SETS
THAT ALL HAPPEN ONE
AFTER THE OTHER.
 CAUSAL CHAIN

Causal chains are commonplace in This is to maintain

an essay that uses Causal Analysis order and coherence
as one of its modes of paragraph
development. However, it is
in your essay and also
important to identify first the to avoid losing focus.
primary and secondary causes and
effects of the situation.
 WHEN DEALING WITH
CAUSAL ANALYSIS, BE WARY
OF THE LOGICAL FALLACY
OF FAULTY CAUSALITY.
 • IS THE
INACCURATE

FAULTY ASSUMPTION THAT

ONE THING
CAUSED ANOTHER
CAUSALIT TO HAPPEN, BASED
SOLELY ON THE
Y FACT THAT ONE
CAME BEFORE THE
OTHER.
THANK
YOU
QUIZ!
IDENTIFICATION
1. It deals with the study of
the relationship between or 2. Is what prompts 3. Is what was yielded after
among at least two something to happen. something else took place.
happenings.

5. Is the inaccurate assumption

4. Is a set of cause and
that one thing caused another
effect that leads to multiple
to happen, based solely on the
other sets that all happen
fact that one came before the
one after the other.
other.
ESSAY
(MUST BE WORTH 5 POINTS)
(MINIMUM OF 3 SENTENCES)

• WHY DO YOU NEED TO DO A

CAUSAL ANALYSIS IN
WRITING AN ESSAY?