Writing Thesis Statement Guide

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A thesis statement is a sentence which summarizes the main idea of your paper and clearly expresses what it is you are going to say about your topic. http://www.csn.edu/PDFFiles/Library/thesis3.pdf

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What are your reasons (or sub-topics)? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],What might your thesis sentence look like? In the 1960s it was important for NASA to go to the moon because of the need for human exploration of space, the continuing “Space Race” with the Russians, and to realize President Kennedy’s vision for the United States.

And another one… How did television influence America in the 1960s? Talk it out… What are the reasons? Family life Politics Advances in technology

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It should act as mortar, holding together the various bricks of a paper, summarizing the main point of the paper "in a nutshell," and pointing toward the paper's development. http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/thesis.html

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