Points to Remember: Cause and Effect

CAUSE AND EFFECT Points to Remember
1. Remember that in human events you can almost never prove direct, simple, cause and effect relationships, Qualify your claims.
2. Be careful not to oversimplify your cause and effect statements, be cautious about saying that a cause always produces a certain effect of that a remedy never succeeds.
3. Distinguish between the immediate, obvious cause of something and more long range, less apparent causes for that effect.
4. Avoid confusing coincidence or simple sequence with cause and effect; because B follows A doesn’t mean that A caused B.
5. Build your cause-and-effect argument as a trial lawyer would. Present as much evidence as you can and argue for your hypothesis.