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If you are just starting out, and you are still developing an original, evidence-based claim to defend, a simpler formula is probably best. Once you have done the research, and you understand the subject, then a formula like the following won’t look like random words; it will suggest a way to frame a nuanced, complex argument that goes beyond making non-controversial factual statements.
While says , says . While the two authors disagree over , they both share a deep concern over . refusal to accept suggests that is . | |
What really matters is not guessing the magically correct words to fit some secret formula that your mean instructor is refusing to tell you. What matters is that you have researched your subject, that you have found and engaged meaningfully with peer-reviewed academic sources, and that you are developing an evidence-based claim, rather than summarizing or giving unsupported opinion. |
Academic Argument: Evidence-based Defense of a Non-obvious Position
Parts of a Thesis Statement
The thesis statement has 3 main parts : the limited subject , the precise opinion , and the blueprint of reasons .
Make sure you’ve chosen a subject that meets your instructor’s requirements for the assignment. (It never hurts to ask.)
The precise opinion gives your answer to a question about the subject. A good precise opinion is vital to the reader’s comprehension of the goal of the essay .
A blueprint is a plan. It lets the builder know that the foyer will be here, the living room will be to the east, the dining room to the west, and the family room will be north.The blueprint of an essay permits you to see the whole shape of your ideas before you start churning out whole paragraphs.While it’s okay for you to start writing down your ideas before you have a clear sense of your blueprint, your reader should never encounter a list of details without being told exactly what point these details are supposed to support. (For more details on the reasoning blueprint, see Blueprinting .)
The biography challenges the Western genre’s stereotype of the “savage Indian” through . | |
In the blueprint, the author . The author of the example above introduces three different kinds of evidence: Informed by this blueprint, the reader expects to encounter one section (a paragraph or more) devoted to each subtopic.The . |
If your thesis statement introduces three reasons A, B and C, the reader will expect a section on reason A, a section on reason B, and a section on reason C.
For a single paragraph, you might only spend one sentence on each reason. For a 2-3 page paper, each reason might get its own paragraph. For a 10-page paper, each reason might contain its own local thesis statement, with its own list of reasons, so that each section involves several paragraphs.To emphasize the structure of your essay, repeat keywords or paraphrased ideas from the blueprint as you introduce the sections in which you expand on each point. Crafting good transitions is a skill that takes time and practice. ( See Transitions and Reminders of Thesis ).
Note : If you repeat your blueprint phrases and your thesis statement robotically (“The third point I want to talk about is how Black Elk Speaks accurately represents the Indian lifestyle through its direct quotes from Black Elk.”), your writing will be rather dry and lifeless. Dull writing is probably better than aimless rambling, although neither is terribly effective. |
Note : A thesis statement amounts to nothing if the paper is not completely focused on that main point . Blueprinting helps create the coherency of the thesis throughout the entire essay, which makes it a necessary part of the thesis statement.
accurately represents Indian lifestyle through its attention to cultural detail, its use of Indian words, and its direct quotes from Black Elk. | |
: The representation of Indian lifestyle in the book Black Elk Speaks : the book is accurate : the book pays attention to it uses , and it uses . (The rest of the paper will establish the truth of teach of these supporting points, and then explain why they add up to support the truth of the thesis statement.) |
Is a tragedy? | |
This is a question, not a statement. It’s fine to sit down at the keyboard with the intention of writing a paper to answer this question, but before you start churning out the sentences, you should have a clear idea of what answer you’re trying to support. |
This paper will look at the book’s attention to cultural detail, its use of Indian words, and its direct quotations from Black Elk, in order to determine whether accurately represents Indian lifestyle. | |
The above sample is slightly better because it offers more detail, but it still doesn’t say what position the author is taking on the topic of whether the book is accurate. |
Because the events in the story emphasize Black Elk’s role as a Sioux Warrior, and do not describe his eventual conversion to Catholicism and membership in the Society of St. Joseph, presents a skewed and simplified view of the complex history of Native Americans. | |
Note that the above sample contains a (the accuracy of Black Elk Speaks), (it is skewed and simplified), and (because the book only tells part of the story). You don’t need to present those three parts in that exact order every time; furthermore, your instructor may have a good reason to ask you for a different organization. But most of the time, including these three parts will help your reader to follow your ideas much more closely. |
Biographies of all types can teach us many things about the past. What was the culture like? What was the language like? And what did the people say? One such book is Black Elk Speaks, which tells the story of a Sioux warrior in the late 1800s. How accurate is this book? This paper will investigate the cultural details, the language, and what Black Elk actually said, in order to determine the answer. | |
The above sample starts off with a wordy, general statement about biographies. But the main topic isn’t about biographies of all types, it’s specifically about one book, Black Elk Speaks. |
17 Oct 2000 — originally posted by Nicci Jordan, UWEC Junior 08 Dec 2000 — first posted here. Maintained by Prof. Jerz. 13 Dec 2003 — links updated 22 Sep 2006 — moderate revisions by Jerz 29 Oct 2011 — updated by Jerz 14 June 2015 — minor adjustments
Blueprinting: Planning Your Essay A blueprint is a rough but specific plan , or outline, which defines the structure of your whole essay. The blueprint, usually located within the thesis statement, is a brief list of the points you plan to make, compressed into just a few words each, in the same order in which they appear in the body of your paper.
Hochstein, Jordan, and Jerz Thesis Reminders A thesis reminder is a direct echo of the thesis statement . In a short paper, the topic sentence of each paragraph should repeat words or phrases from the thesis statement.
Dennis G. Jerz Timed Essays: Planning and Organizing in a Crunch
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Gibberish person may be skimming too fast. This always helps. I’m in the middle of replying to a student email on how to rework her thesis statement and I use your explanation as a clear explanation.
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please I want some more examples of how to construct a very good acedamic essays
From this class,I kind of know what is thesis statement.It is a strong support of a whole passage,it can inform people of what the passage is telling,only by using a few words .It should have the keywords and a good organization to make itself brief but rich.After learning this class,I think I will be better at writing the thesis statement.Thanks
I am doing a project for my MST…but iam finding it difficult in putting up my paragraphs which needs to include my subject and limited subject…..pliz advice me on how to put up my paragraph
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I am doing preparation of ielts exam . but I faface difficulty in grammar and especially in thesis line which I confuse that what should i write in thesis line among all kinds of essay …plz tell me but should I do to improve it.
I think you should read more and write more.After writing,you can ask someone that is good at English learning to help you know what your mistakes are.
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Plz tell me how can I impressive to my intro and how can I improve my writing skill
Jonu, I’d say the most important helpful thing you can do is expose yourself to English as spoken by native English speakers, talking with people who know the language well enough that they can correct you immediately, in casual conversation, when you make one of the word-level errors that only an expert user of the language would spot. There is no shortcut — exposing yourself to a language is the only way to learn it.
I happened to come across this video, which is geared towards a young audience, but is written for English language learners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqxuNrhKhMc
Hi i am doing the preparation of competitive exam , i have to write an Essay of 2500-2800 words, data should be critical and researched base, for example there is Essay on Climate change , then please tell me how i develop a thesis statement, and how we write thesis statement, is it is written in the start of Essay or in the end of introduction, some people said that thesis satement should be written in start other say that this written in end of introductory paragraph. please help me with example thanks
Rab, if you are looking for my advice on thesis statements, you have found the right page. If you have any specific questions or comments about the content of this page, I’d be happy to address them. I’ve already put lots of time into this page, and at the moment I can’t think of a way to present my advice any more clearly.
Although you did say “please,” even so, “tell me how I develop a thesis statement” is asking for quite a lot.
What is your college major or your area of professonal expertise? If I asked you to tell me, right here on my blog, what I need to know in order to succeed in a competitive exam in your field, what would you say?
If I went to a doctor and said “Tell me how to diagnose a patient,” or I went to a judge and said “Tell me how to interpret the law,” or I went to an artist and said “Tell me how to be creative,” do you think they would be able give me a few sentences that completely answer my question and prepare me for professional work as a doctor, judge, or artist? If they had spent years as students learning their subject matter, and additional years teaching or writing a textbook on their specialty, they might be very good in their professions but I’d bet they’d all find it tough to answer such a question in any meaningful way.
I won’t be evaluating your submission, so my opinion on debatable topics such as where the thesis should go won’t be of any specific use to you.
thesis statement should be the last statement in your introductory paragraph, it will consist of a short explanation as to why you are writing the essay and what is involved.
That’s certainly a valid place to put a thesis statement, jentar. If your instructor tells you to put a thesis statement in a certain place, then putting it anywhere else is risky. But it’s also possible to start with a paragraph that grabs the reader’s attention with a gripping example that illustrates what’s at stake, and then give the thesis statement in the second paragraph.
This is great stuff. I wonder if you didn’t mean expansive rather than expensive in the following sentence. “Instead of claiming that a book “challenges a genre’s stereotypes,” you might instead argue that some text “provides a more expensive but more ethical solution than X” or “challenges Jim Smith’s observation that ‘[some quote from Smith here]’” instead.
Thanks for your feedback. I’m glad you found the page useful. I really did mean “expensive” in that example, though I am simply suggesting that considering cost is worth exploring in an argument, depending on the kind of argument you are making.
I found the information to be very informative and easy to understand. Thank you
Hi. I began an essay on the topic ; reasons why pursuing college education is important. I had it started off this way… Aristotle said it best when he stated, “Education is the best provision for life’s journey.” Pursuing a college education provides individuals with career pportunities, higher income and experiences necessary in the journey of life. Please do you think I started off good or too weak? I need your help as this is a great assignment for me to make up for my mid semester examination which I was unable to attend!
Your instructor is the one who will grade the assignment, so he or she is the best source of feedback. Without knowing what grade/level you are, or what kind of class you are taking, I can’t really advise you. However, unless you have read Aristotle’s works yourself and can place that quote in its context, I would not recommend pulling a random quote from a website and using it to start a paper. The complete quote is “Education is the best provision for the journey to old age,” but what does that mean?
The word “best” means there is at least a “good” and a “better,” and that by some measurement or judgement, a third thing is “best.” What are the two other sayings (at least) that you have compared to Aristotle, and what are the two other things (at least) that Aristotle thinks are not as good provision for life’s journey to old age? Why does your opinion (on at least three different sayings, of which the best is Aristotle’s), and at least three different provisions for old age (of which the best is education) help you to answer your instructor’s prompt about the reasons for pursing a college education?
What we think of as “college” is very different from the education that Aristotle would have received (or provided). I suggest you look into ways that a college education encourages critical thinking, which is a different way of thinking than “Did I get the right answer? Will my teacher approve? What’s the secret ‘correct’ answer in the back of my instructor’s book that I should memorize and spit back?” Maybe your instructor wants you to determine for yourself whether you feel gaining a college education is worth the intellectual effort.
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This is the second of three chapters about Thesis Statements . To complete this short reader, read each chapter carefully and then unlock and complete our materials to check your understanding.
– Introduce the concept of thesis statement elements
– Explore the four different thesis-statement elements
– Provide examples to help guide and inform the reader
Chapter 1: What are thesis statements and why are they important?
Chapter 2: What are the common elements of a thesis statement?
Chapter 3: How can I write an effective thesis statement?
Now that we’ve discussed what a thesis statement is and why it’s important to include one in the introduction of an academic assignment , this chapter next focuses on exploring the elements of two example thesis statements. Once students have a good understanding of the mandatory and optional elements of a thesis statement, it should become a fairly easy process to change the variables of a thesis and rebuild their statements in a similar and accurate way each time.
1. Task Language and Task Type
The first two elements that all thesis statements should possess is some use of task language and some mention of the task type. The language provided below works to inform the reader both of the format of the essay as well as the particular essay type – and any experienced reader will then be able to (based on this type) predict the likely structure of the content. In combination, task language and task type create what is known as a ‘purpose statement’.
2. Topic and Arguments
While the purpose statement may be fairly formulaic, the majority of a thesis statement is composed of the essay topic (often created from the essay question) and the writer’s key arguments (also known as main ideas). With an inclusion of the previously mentioned purpose statement, the following table deconstructs our first thesis statement example (for an informative essay) into its key components.
Sometimes, however, and particularly with persuasive essays , a student may be required to provide both arguments and counter arguments. Such a structure can be seen in the table below, which uses our second thesis-statement example:
Another aspect that’s often required when writing persuasively such as in an evaluative essay is the inclusion of the writer’s stance . In short, stance is the author’s opinion about the overall argument of the essay. Does the writer, for example, agree or disagree with the essay question? When writing persuasively, such stance should usually be clear and apparent in an essay’s thesis statement and restatement , as well as in the body paragraph topic sentences . The figures below indicate the stance that exists in both of our example thesis statements:
4. Outlines
One final element of a thesis statement that should generally be included in an academic essay is what’s known as the outline (or roadmap). An outline is intended to inform the reader of (1) the essay’s key arguments ( main ideas ), and (2) the order in which those arguments will appear in the essay. We’ve provided our two example thesis statements for you below with each main idea underlined:
From these thesis statement outlines, the reader can presume the following essay structure if this were a five-paragraph essay. However, please note that there may in reality be some variation between the outline and the essay structure as the writer may decide to combine two main ideas into one body paragraph , perhaps including also a paragraph of counter argument.
Having now discussed the four key elements of a thesis statement, the final chapter of this topic provides examples, tips and advice for how to write effective thesis statements every time.
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Jasmina wiemann's paleo lab looks at fossils for new clues about how life will persist—or not—during the sixth mass extinction.
By Ashley Stimpson
J asmina Wiemann wanted to be a paleontologist before she could even pronounce the word. "I was a weird kid," she says. Growing up in the countryside outside of Bonn, Germany, she collected tokens of the natural world: flowers, rocks, and insects. But it was in a bookstore, at age 3, where Wiemann says her scientific journey truly began.
"I got obsessed with the cover of this book about past life—not just dinosaurs but saber-toothed cats and trilobites—animals so alien from what we have around today," she remembers. "It just made me incredibly excited."
As it turns out, a number of fields would excite Wiemann, who went on to earn degrees in geology, chemistry, and evolutionary biology. In 2018, when she arrived at Yale for her PhD, she wanted to get back to her first love, paleontology, without abandoning everything she had learned along the way. She decided to "blend all those things together" and devote herself to the nascent field of molecular paleobiology, the study of ancient biomolecules recovered from fossils.
Over the past decade, Wiemann discovered new methods for wringing more information from these fossils than scientists previously believed was possible. "We used to think fossils were dead rocks," she says, "but that's absolutely not true."
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By finding and analyzing soft tissue preserved in dinosaur fossils, Wiemann has fundamentally revised our understanding of the extinct behemoths, from their parenting styles to the squishiness of their eggs to the speed of their metabolisms.
This fall, Wiemann joined the faculty of Hopkins to launch her PaLEO Lab in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences , where graduate and undergraduate students will, among other pursuits, examine what past extinctions can tell us about how life will evolve in the face of global climate change.
Wiemann was an undergraduate herself when she made her first consequential discovery. She needed to nail down a topic for her senior thesis at the University of Bonn just as her adviser was heading out on sabbatical. "You can do whatever you want," he told her, depositing a bag of fossils on her desk. "But we have these leftover fossil eggshells, and if you can get anything out of them, that would be amazing."
Wiemann tried to imagine the most interesting question she could answer about dinosaur eggshells, and her mind soon turned to color. A long-held assumption was that dinosaur eggs were pure white like alligator eggs. What if that wasn't true?
"We'd always assumed that egg color is an avian innovation," she explains. "Blue jays lay greenish-blue eggs; American robins lay bright blue eggs." But scientists have been wrong about bird evolution in the past, once believing that most avian features had evolved in service of flight or unique habitats.
"Lots of these traits actually evolved in their dinosaur ancestors," Wiemann says. For example, dinosaurs relied on feathers for thermal insulation long before birds used them to fly. She wanted to know: Could egg color have originated with dinosaurs?
There are two molecules that give rise to all the diversity in egg color in modern birds. To search for those color pigments, Wiemann dissolved bits of the 67-million-year-old shells in a solution that removed the calcium and allowed her to search through the samples' chemical composition. She found what she was looking for—that pair of molecules. Wiemann's work proved that the eggs in the nest of a velociraptor, instead of being white like alligator eggs, looked a lot like the vivid blue ones we find scattered on the sidewalk every spring.
The discovery not only changed what scientists thought they knew about dinosaur eggs; it changed their perception of the creatures themselves. "We tend to think of dinosaurs as cold-blooded reptilian monsters," Wiemann says, much like today's scaly creatures that mostly abandon their eggs after laying them. "But egg color in modern birds is directly linked to different kinds of parenting strategies, so this diversity of parental behaviors was probably present in dinosaurs. Velociraptors, oviraptors, all the raptors that Jurassic Park painted in such a bad light, they were actually very loving parents."
The 2018 study was published in the journal Nature , earning Wiemann mentions in the pages of Science , National Geographic , and The New York Times . But for her, the work felt unfinished. There was something about the experiment that nagged at her.
"When I extracted the pigments from these shells, at the bottom of the reaction flask there would be this unspectacular brown precipitate," she says. Just what was this brown sludge? Once at Yale, Wiemann decided to find out.
Under the microscope, it looked a whole lot like soft-tissue structures: cells, blood vessels, and nerve projections. But the idea that soft tissue could persist for hundreds of millions of years flew in the face of paleontological wisdom. "We thought that biological material disappears or turns into rock," Wiemann says, "and that none of that information could ever be recovered."
Undeterred, she turned to Raman spectroscopy, a technique that would tell her exactly what she was seeing by using a laser to separate out the chemical components of the sample.
The spectrometer revealed that the brown sludge was, in fact, quite spectacular. In short, it was the residue of cellular protein, which had once lived inside the soft tissue of the dinosaur. When the animal died, it reacted with sugars and lipids to form a resilient polymer, impervious to heat, water, and decay. (You've no doubt seen this same reaction, which occurs when your oven transforms the protein in your bread into a toasty brown crust.) Different proteins transform into different polymers, allowing scientists to glean a remarkable amount of information from the soft tissue preserved in fossils that were, until recently, dismissed as dead rocks.
While these polymers no longer contain DNA, scientists can use Wiemann's method to learn about the physiology and metabolism of long-extinct animals and about their phylogenetic relationship to one another. So far, Wiemann has employed it to determine that most dinosaurs were warm-blooded and that the eggs they laid were soft.
Now Wiemann is turning her attention—and her spectrometer—to one of the most pressing questions of our time: How will life respond to climate change?
"We're living in the sixth extinction right now," she says, referring to human actions wiping out species at an alarming rate. "While we can model quite accurately how biodiversity will respond in the short term, we have absolutely no idea what will happen in the longer term."
For insight, Wiemann says, we can look to what she calls the "the longest experiment on physiologic response to climate change": the history of life.
What physiological features gave some species an advantage? What features may have driven others to extinction? How did past life evolve in the wake of rising temperatures and sea levels? To answer these questions, she plans to equip the PaLEO lab with a "very fancy" Raman spectrometer with three lasers capable of providing cellular to subcellular resolution. "It's going to be one of the best setups in the world," the scientist says, "where we can ask big, paradigm-changing questions."
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A thesis statement: tells the reader how you will interpret the significance of the subject matter under discussion. is a road map for the paper; in other words, it tells the reader what to expect from the rest of the paper. directly answers the question asked of you. A thesis is an interpretation of a question or subject, not the subject itself.
The thesis statement is the one sentence that encapsulates the result of your thinking, as it offers your main insight or argument in condensed form. A basic thesis statement has two main parts: Topic: What you're writing about. Angle: What your main idea is about that topic.
A thesis statement . . . Makes an argumentative assertion about a topic; it states the conclusions that you have reached about your topic. Makes a promise to the reader about the scope, purpose, and direction of your paper. Is focused and specific enough to be "proven" within the boundaries of your paper. Is generally located near the end ...
Step 4: Revise and refine your thesis statement before you start writing. Read through your thesis statement several times before you begin to compose your full essay. You need to make sure the statement is ironclad, since it is the foundation of the entire paper. Edit it or have a peer review it for you to make sure everything makes sense and ...
How to Tell a Strong Thesis Statement from a Weak One 1. A strong thesis statement takes some sort of stand. Remember that your thesis needs to show your conclusions about a subject. For example, if you are writing a paper for a class on fitness, you might be asked to choose a popular weight-loss product to evaluate. Here are two thesis statements:
A good thesis has two parts. It should tell what you plan to argue, and it should "telegraph" how you plan to argue—that is, what particular support for your claim is going where in your essay. Steps in Constructing a Thesis. First, analyze your primary sources. Look for tension, interest, ambiguity, controversy, and/or complication.
A thesis statement is a very common component of an essay, particularly in the humanities. It usually comprises 1 or 2 sentences in the introduction of your essay, and should clearly and concisely summarize the central points of your academic essay. A thesis is a long-form piece of academic writing, often taking more than a full semester to ...
A thesis statement is: The statement of the author's position on a topic or subject. Clear, concise, and goes beyond fact or observation to become an idea that needs to be supported (arguable). Often a statement of tension, where the author refutes or complicates an existing assumption or claim (counterargument).
It is a brief statement of your paper's main argument. Essentially, you are stating what you will be writing about. Organize your papers in one place. Try Paperpile. No credit card needed. Get 30 days free. You can see your thesis statement as an answer to a question. While it also contains the question, it should really give an answer to the ...
A thesis statement is one or a few sentences that express the main ideas of your paper and answer the questions posed by your paper. Some thesis statements offer readers a quick and easy-to-follow summary of what the paper will be discussing and what you as a writer are setting out to tell them. This handout will include strategies for writing ...
Tips for Writing Your Thesis Statement. 1. Determine what kind of paper you are writing: An analytical paper breaks down an issue or an idea into its component parts, evaluates the issue or idea, and presents this breakdown and evaluation to the audience.; An expository (explanatory) paper explains something to the audience.; An argumentative paper makes a claim about a topic and justifies ...
A thesis statement clearly identifies the topic being discussed, includes the points discussed in the paper, and is written for a specific audience. Your thesis statement belongs at the end of your first paragraph, also known as your introduction. Use it to generate interest in your topic and encourage your audience to continue reading.
A thesis statement is a sentence (sometimes more than one sentence) in the introduction that tells the reader the following information: What the topic of the paper is. How the writer intends to discuss that topic. It gives a blueprint for how the essay will be structured. How the writer intends to prove or demonstrate his or her main points.
A standard thesis statement has three main components: a narrowly defined topic, a claim and reasons that support the claim. If you want a strong thesis statement, you need to make sure that all three of these points are included in it. Step 1. First, identify your topic and narrow it down as much as possible. Clothing, for example, is too ...
How to write a thesis statement. When writing a thesis, the following guidelines apply: Step 1: Determine the type of paper (explanatory, argumentative, or analytical). Step 2: Identify the topic, position/claim, and supports of the essay. Step 3: Determine if the supports should be included within the thesis. Although they are considered optional, they might be required depending on the ...
This thesis statement is not debatable. First, the word pollution implies that something is bad or negative in some way. Furthermore, all studies agree that pollution is a problem; they simply disagree on the impact it will have or the scope of the problem. No one could reasonably argue that pollution is unambiguously good.
A thesis statement is a sentence (or sentences) that expresses the main ideas of your paper and answers the question or questions posed by your paper. It offers your readers a quick and easy to follow summary of what the paper will be discussing and what you as a writer are setting out to tell them. The kind of thesis that your paper will have ...
A strong thesis statement is the backbone of a well-organized paper. Learn how to write an explanatory, argumentative, or analytical thesis statement.
Now that we have a better understanding of the three elements of a thesis statement, let's examine why thesis statements are crucial to a paper. For a Reader Thesis statements act as a roadmap that drive readers from one paragraph to another. Having a thesis statement gives the reader a "notice" on points that will be discussed in the paper.
A thesis acts as a unifying idea for every piece of evidence in an essay. A thesis results from research in addition to the writer's own beliefs or opinions. A thesis answers a specific question. There are lots of ways to create a successful thesis because good theses come in all sorts of varieties. What all successful argumentative theses ...
A thesis statement is the single, specific claim that your essay supports. A strong thesis answers the question you want to raise; it does so by presenting a topic, the position you wish to defend, and a reasoning blueprint that sketches out your defense of your chosen position. A good thesis is not merely a factual statement, an observation, a personal opinion or preference, or the question ...
Once students have a good understanding of the mandatory and optional elements of a thesis statement, it should become a fairly easy process to change the variables of a thesis and rebuild their statements in a similar and accurate way each time. 1. Task Language and Task Type. The first two elements that all thesis statements should possess is ...
Wiemann was an undergraduate herself when she made her first consequential discovery. She needed to nail down a topic for her senior thesis at the University of Bonn just as her adviser was heading out on sabbatical. "You can do whatever you want," he told her, depositing a bag of fossils on her desk.