ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Thesis Statement

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Gaye Taylor

Document Summary

Whereas drafting requires you to focus inward, concentrating on getting your topic out, Effective revising demands that you look outward, anticipating your readers" reaction. Get a second opinion, from someone who cares enough to be critical. Outline your draft, you"ll catch ideas that are too compressed. Read your draft aloud, you"ll hear absent transitions. In acknowledging a difference of opinion, you show respect. In acknowledging complexity and difficulty, you inspire respect as someone who is neither shallow, nor arrogant. Explain their perspective fairly and generously: don"t give short shrift, distort, or mock. Is your conclusion memorable: work to show broader relevance, return the reader to the powerful anecdote, statistic, case study that animated your introduction, but differently. Are your sentences grammatical and logical: check for fragments, run-on sentences, modifier and pronoun reference problems. Use coordination if you want to give ideas equal stress.