Example Thesis Statments

Example Thesis Statments a comparison

A thesis statement is an assertion, Fact or observation: not a statement of fact or an People use many lawn chemicals. observation. Thesis: People poison the environment with chemicals merely to keep their lawns clean.

A thesis takes a stand rather than Announcement: announcing a subject. The thesis of this paper is the difficulty of understanding our environmental problems. Thesis: Understanding our environmental problems is more difficult than many environmentalists believe.

A thesis is the main idea, not the Title: title. It must be a complete Social Security and Old Age. sentence that explains in some Thesis: detail what you expect to write Continuing changes in the Social Security System makes it confusing to plan intelligently about. for one's retirement.

A thesis statement is narrow, Broad: rather than broad. If the thesis The American infrastructure has manystatement is sufficiently narrow, it problems can be fully supported. Narrow: The primary problem of the American infrastructure is the lack of funds to renovate structures and outdated government policies.

A thesis statement is specific Vague:rather than vague or general. Hemingway's war stories are very good. Specific: Hemingway's stories helped create a new prose style by employing extensive dialogue, shorter sentences, and strong Anglo-Saxon words.

A thesis statement has one main More than one main point: point rather than several main Stephen Hawking's physical disability has notpoints. More than one point may be prevented him from becoming a too difficult for the reader to world-renowned physicist, and his book is the understand and the writer to subject of a movie. support. One Main point: Stephen Hawking's physical disability has not prevented him from becoming a world renowned physicist.

Review Make an assertion No announcements Separate from the title Narrow your topic Be specific Contains on one main pointadapted by Libby Brunsvold from The Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers, 3rd ed., by Maxine Hairston and John J. Ruszkiewice, NY: Harper Collins,1993, and Writing with a Thesis, 5th ed., by David Skwire, NY: Holt, 1990