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Formulating Thesis Statements Patterns of College Writing by: Kirszner and Mandell Thesis Defined • Main Idea or Central Point • Your essay should be the support for your thesis statement • Your thesis should depend on the scope and difficulty of your assignment, your knowledge, and your method of writing. • Your thesis should always enlighten • Many thesis statements should be able to be argued. • Your writing thesis may and will most likely be tentative. 3 Characteristics of a thesis • 1. An effective thesis statement clearly expresses your essay’s main idea. – It signals how you will approach your topic • 2. An effective thesis statement communicates your essay’s purpose. – To express feelings (expresive) – To inform (informative) – To persuade (persuasive) • 3. An effective thesis statement is clearly worded. Subject to Topic • Start your essay with a general subject – A general theme in a fictional work: • Teen Angst – A Wikipedia Entry • Web 2.0 • Move to specific topics – Gene’s inability follow his own interests causes him to kill Phineas. – The use of Web 2.0 materials in an English classroom increases student interaction with texts. Finding your Thesis • Title: George Orwell’s “A Hanging” • Announcement: This paper will discuss George Orwell’s attitude toward the death penalty in his essay “A Hanging” • Statement of Fact: In his essay, Orwell describes a hanging that he witnessed in Burma • Thesis: In “A Hanging,” George Orwell shows that capital punishment is not only brutal but also immoral. Exercises • Page 34 – Exercise 8 &9