Reading: 

-Excerpt from From Idea to Essay, “Chapter 14: Causal Analysis” (PDF). Start at the bottom of the first page of the PDF (“How to Write an Analysis of Cause”, on page 378) up to the middle of page 386 (you do not have to read the piece by Tennessee Williams). 

-Excerpt from From Idea to Essay, “Chapter 15: Argumentation” (PDF). Start at the bottom of page 416 – “How to Write an Argument” – up to the middle of page 430 (you do not have to read the piece by Isaac Asimov).