ENGL 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Thesis Statement
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English 112 lecture 7 writing your thesis statement. March 30 new due date for paper / presentations begin (april 1, 4, 6: note: each presentation is 4-5 min and worth 5% Concepts or abstractions also form the basis of your thesis. Make sure that your writing supplies your thesis and that you are on topic. Aboutness: a thesis supplies your paper"s aboutness in tying its diverse items of information together. Coherence: a thesis also supplies your paper with the organizing principle of coherence supplied by repetition. Disproportion: why am i telling my reader this now? ask yourself this question for everything you write. A thesis thus creates an essay"s meaning. Ideally the reader will meet your thesis statement at the beginning of your essay before encountering the fact that develops it. Your thesis should also be paraphrased at strategic points throughout the essay.
