TYPES OF PARAGRAPH - EXAMPLES

CAUSE/EFFECT PARAGRAPH

A cause and effect paragraph explains why the action of one thing (the cause) produces a result (the effect). In this example, the first-person is used. The example below is by a student:

If I had listened to my teachers who encouraged me stay in college, I would be in a much better financial position today. Instead, when I was nineteen, I dropped out of college and drifted from one job to another. At first, It felt good to have money while friends of mine who remained in college were always broke, but soon I realized my mistake. Friends of mine who graduated with degrees in business and science were suddenly making three or four times what I was making as a manager of a shoe store. In addition, I began to feel as though my education was incomplete. Something was missing from my life. Gradually, the consequences of my short-term thinking became evident; therefore, At the age of twenty-five, I returned to college to pursue a degree in business administration.