ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thesis Statement, List Of Fables Characters

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

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Working through (choosing, evaluating, and presenting) your evidence. Midterm: read short essay, write essay defending the grade of essay. Takes stand, and indicates how you will stand your ground (in effect, demonstrates conclusions about a subject. ) Cannot leave reader hanging, essay not a mystery novel. Weak thesis: there are some negative and positive aspects to unilever"s dove self-esteem fund. Strong thesis: although unilever"s efforts to make girls and women feel positive about themselves and the way they look seem like a good thing, serious questions exist about the multinational"s actual commitment to this project. One might, for example, point to their continued marketing of skin lighteners like fair and lovely and their hyper sexualized media campaign for axe deodorant. Key point: strong thesis grows out of good evidence. Well-chosen, carefully evaluated, and well-presented because it is by working through your evidence that you test and refine the working thesis.