ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Breakfast Cereal, Semicolon, Uptodate
9 Dec 2016
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A topic is a narrow branch of a subject. The narrow topic limits the content of your essay. As your research and writing progresses, continue to narrow further. How breakfast cereal commercials manipulate primary school children into eating sugary foods. (not a thesis since there is no assertion) As your research continues, you will eventually form a thesis statement. The topic determines what area you will discuss, but not the argument (or position) you will pursue. Techniques to narrowing the topic how commercials manipulate their audience singling out your thesis statement: narrow your topic to a problem or question, topic: great depression of 1929-1941. Question or problem: could the great depression of 1929-1941 have been lessened if congress had not passed the hawley-smoot tariff act of 1930? : topic: medieval architecture. In parliamentary debates in canada: narrow your topic to a specific individual or group. Third division passage of the hawley-smoot tariff act: recipe for disaster .
