For Year 10 High School/School Certificate English
How to construct a decent introduction and a thesis?
Tips/Advices with examples
As well as a guideline to assist in making a thesis for the topic Consumerism
For Year 10 High School/School Certificate English
How to construct a decent introduction and a thesis?
Tips/Advices with examples
As well as a guideline to assist in making a thesis for the topic Consumerism
For Year 10 High School/School Certificate English
How to construct a decent introduction and a thesis?
Tips/Advices with examples
As well as a guideline to assist in making a thesis for the topic Consumerism
Exposition essays ask your opinion and it is essential you have
one. Your position/argument is called your thesis. It must be supported by evidence from the texts. Why Should Your Essay Contain A Thesis Statement? to test your ideas by distilling them into a sentence or two to better organize and develop your argument to provide your reader with a "guide" to your argument In general your thesis statement will accomplish these goals if you think of the thesis as the answer to the !uestion your essay explores. A strong thesis takes some sort of stand. "emember that your thesis needs to show your conclusions about a sub#ect. $or example if you are writing an essay for a class on fitness you might be asked to choose a popular weight%loss product to evaluate. &ere are two thesis statements' There are some negative and positive aspects to the Banana Herb Tea Supplement. (his is a weak thesis. $irst it fails to take a stand. )econd the phrase "negative and positive" aspects" are vague. Banana Herb Tea Supplement promotes rapid weight loss that results in the loss of muscle and lean body mass and so poses a potential danger to customers. (his is a strong thesis because it takes a stand. A strong thesis justifies discussion. Your thesis should indicate the point of the discussion. If your assignment is to write an essay on kinship systems using your own family as an example you might come up with either of these two thesis statements' My family is an extended family. (his is a weak thesis because it states an observation. Your reader won*t be able to tell the point of the statement and will probably stop reading. While most American families would view consanguine marriage as a threat to the nuclear family structure many !ranian families li"e my own believe that these marriages help reinforce "inship ties in an extended family. (his is a strong thesis because it shows how your experience contradicts a widely accepted view. + good strategy for creating a strong thesis is to show that the topic is controversial. "eaders will be interested in reading the rest of the essay to see how you support your point. A strong thesis expresses one main idea. "eaders need to be able to see that your essay has one main point. If your thesis expresses more than one idea then you might confuse your readers about the sub#ect of your essay. $or example' #ompanies need to exploit the mar"eting potential of the !nternet and web pages can provide both advertising and customer support. (his is a weak thesis statement because the reader can*t decide whether the essay is about marketing on the Internet or web pages. (o revise the thesis the relationship between the two ideas needs to become clearer. ,ne way to revise the thesis would be to write' The !nternet is filled with tremendous mar"eting potential$ companies should exploit this potential by using web pages that offer both advertising and customer support. (his is a strong thesis because it shows that the two ideas are related. &int' a great many clear and engaging thesis statements contain words like "because" "since" "so" "although" "unless" and "however." A strong thesis statement is specific. + thesis statement should show exactly what your essay will be about and will help you keep your essay to a manageable topic. $or example if you write an essay on hunger you might say' World hunger has many causes and effects. (his is a weak thesis statement for two ma#or reasons. $irst "world hunger" can*t be discussed thoroughly in five or ten pages. )econd "many causes and effects" is vague. You should be able to identify specific causes and effects. + revised thesis might look like this' Hunger persists in Appalachia because %obs are scarce and farming in the infertile soil is rarely profitable. (his is a strong thesis because it narrows the sub#ect to a more specific and manageable topic and it also identifies the specific causes for the existence of hunger. Your turn -rite a thesis statement for consumerism along the lines of the one below. Banana Herb Tea Supplement promotes rapid weight loss that results in the loss of muscle and lean body mass and so poses a potential danger to customers. (his is a strong thesis because it takes a stand. Example % (he greed and superficiality that characterises .onsumerism promotes the loss of personal connection and so poses a disturbing threat to the emotional and spiritual wellbeing of our society. What should an introduction do? Whatever you are writingan essay, a report, an article, a journal, a literature review, or any other piece of academic writingthe introduction will be the first thing the reader sees. If an introduction is poorly written or constructed, if it does not tell readers what they need to know, if it does not help readers to orient themselves to your paperthen you have lost your readers' goodwill right from the beginning, and can be sure of losing marks, no matter how well the rest of the assignment is constructed. Its essential, then, that you get the introduction right. his means that you must know what the introduction is supposed to do, what sorts of things must go into the introduction, how to write and structure the introduction properly, and how to interest your reader from the start. An introduction should do the folloing!
!ave a thesis
Indicate the scope and direction of the paper, and act as a navigation guide to its reading.
show the reader how you are interpreting and approaching the "uestion
provide a conte#t for the main issue
indicate a conceptual understanding
Your turn Example % (he greed and superficiality that characterises .onsumerism promotes the loss of personal connection and so poses a disturbing threat to the emotional and spiritual wellbeing of our society. In (insert poem title), Dawe is critical of the way consumer cultures Similarly, in (insert name of Unseen poem), conveys Topic sentence what pararaph is a!out, lin" !ac" to thesis some how Te#tual evi$ence e#ample from the te#t that will prove your point Summative sentence reinforcin what you %ust sai$ roun$s up your pararaph