ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thesis Statement

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Jeanie Warnock

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Critical thinking, reading, writing: three levels of response. Read for the literal content (on the lines) - summarize. Read to synthesize, analyze, draw inferences (between the lines) Read to evaluate and assess (beyond the lines) Thesis statement and purpose: main points the support the thesis - summarize in your own words; excluding detail. To summarize information in an article focus on. Repetition of key words or phrase-which convey the authors purpose, direction, principle points. Break into component parts and then search for patterns. Five step analysis: a technique to develop you ability: look and note down all exact repetitions, note repetition of an idea, image, thought, etc. Identify organizing contrast or binaries sometimes explicit, sometimes implicit or. We"re given only half of the binary, but we understand it in terms of the opposition between the two sides: rank them in order of significance, choose one repetition, strand, or binary and consider why it"s so important.