Possible Cause-Effect Topics

1. Explain the effects of stress on you. Focus by limiting to a specific situation.

2. What are the effects of television on study habits?

3. How can one individual have an effect on the environment?

4. What are the signs of teenage depression? How can teenage depression be prevented or treated?

5. What are the effects of the computer on the quality of your writing?

6. Is the media a reflection of society’s ills or does it cause society’s ills?

7. Why can’t Johnny read?

8. What are the effects of illiteracy?

9. What effect has the automobile had on the American society?

10. What are the effects of beauty? ugliness? poverty? wealth?

11. Which is more of an influence on a person’s life — genetics or environment?

12. Think of a character from history or fiction. What caused his/her behavior? What were the results of her/his behavior?