jueves, 20 de junio de 2019
domingo, 16 de junio de 2019
Portfolio 7: Thesis Statement
How to write a Thesis Statement
A good thesis statement includes a topic, a precise opinion and a reasoning.
Parts of a Thesis Statement
1- The subject: the topic of the essay.
2- The precise opinion: the opinion on the subject.
3- the blueprint of reasons: how you plan to argue and prove your opinion. You should have 3 strong pieces of evidence to support your claim.
We can list the reasons:
A thesis statement is an arguable statement. You need to research evidence to support your opinion.
The pieces of evidence or the 'blueprint' are only effective if:
1- you explain what you mean about each blueprint point in the body paragraph.
2- you provide detailed examples for each blueprint point.
The thesis statement tells the reader:
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A good thesis statement includes a topic, a precise opinion and a reasoning.
Parts of a Thesis Statement
1- The subject: the topic of the essay.
2- The precise opinion: the opinion on the subject.
3- the blueprint of reasons: how you plan to argue and prove your opinion. You should have 3 strong pieces of evidence to support your claim.
We can list the reasons:
- at the end of the thesis statement.
- at the beginning of the thesis statement.
- in the sentence after the thesis statement.
A thesis statement is an arguable statement. You need to research evidence to support your opinion.
The pieces of evidence or the 'blueprint' are only effective if:
1- you explain what you mean about each blueprint point in the body paragraph.
2- you provide detailed examples for each blueprint point.
The thesis statement tells the reader:
- where you are going in your essay.
- how you plan on getting there.
https://youtu.be/5HePQWodWiQ
https://youtu.be/DfUkhdh8Z08
lunes, 20 de mayo de 2019
jueves, 2 de mayo de 2019
2- Topic sentences
1.Many politicians deplore the passing of the old family-sized farm, but I'm not so sure.
I saw around Velva a release from what was like slavery to the tyrannical soil, release from the ignorance that darkens the soul and from the loneliness that corrodes it. In this generation my Velva friends have rejoined the general American society that their pioneering fathers left behind when they first made the barren trek in the days of the wheat rush. As I sit here in Washington writing this, I can feel their nearness. (from Eric Sevareid, "Velva, North Dakota")
2. There are two broad theories concerning what triggers a human's inevitable decline to death.
The first is the wear-and-tear hypothesis that suggests the body eventually succumbs to the environmental insults of life. The second is the notion that we have an internal clock which is genetically programmed to run down. Supporters of the wear-and-tear theory maintain that the very practice of breathing causes us to age because inhaled oxygen produces toxic by-products. Advocates of the internal clock theory believe that individual cells are told to stop dividing and thus eventually to die by, for example, hormones produced by the brain or by their own genes. (from Debra Blank, "The Eternal Quest" [edited]).
3.We commonly look on the discipline of war as vastly more rigid than any discipline necessary in time of peace, but this is an error.
The strictest military discipline imaginable is still looser than that prevailing in the average assembly-line. The soldier, at worst, is still able to exercise the highest conceivable functions of freedom -- that is, he or she is permitted to steal and to kill. No discipline prevailing in peace gives him or her anything remotely resembling this. The soldier is, in war, in the position of a free adult; in peace he or she is almost always in the position of a child. In war all things are excused by success, even violations of discipline. In peace, speaking generally, success is inconceivable except as a function of discipline. (from H.L. Mencken, "Reflections on War" [edited]).
1.Many politicians deplore the passing of the old family-sized farm, but I'm not so sure.
I saw around Velva a release from what was like slavery to the tyrannical soil, release from the ignorance that darkens the soul and from the loneliness that corrodes it. In this generation my Velva friends have rejoined the general American society that their pioneering fathers left behind when they first made the barren trek in the days of the wheat rush. As I sit here in Washington writing this, I can feel their nearness. (from Eric Sevareid, "Velva, North Dakota")
2. There are two broad theories concerning what triggers a human's inevitable decline to death.
The first is the wear-and-tear hypothesis that suggests the body eventually succumbs to the environmental insults of life. The second is the notion that we have an internal clock which is genetically programmed to run down. Supporters of the wear-and-tear theory maintain that the very practice of breathing causes us to age because inhaled oxygen produces toxic by-products. Advocates of the internal clock theory believe that individual cells are told to stop dividing and thus eventually to die by, for example, hormones produced by the brain or by their own genes. (from Debra Blank, "The Eternal Quest" [edited]).
3.We commonly look on the discipline of war as vastly more rigid than any discipline necessary in time of peace, but this is an error.
The strictest military discipline imaginable is still looser than that prevailing in the average assembly-line. The soldier, at worst, is still able to exercise the highest conceivable functions of freedom -- that is, he or she is permitted to steal and to kill. No discipline prevailing in peace gives him or her anything remotely resembling this. The soldier is, in war, in the position of a free adult; in peace he or she is almost always in the position of a child. In war all things are excused by success, even violations of discipline. In peace, speaking generally, success is inconceivable except as a function of discipline. (from H.L. Mencken, "Reflections on War" [edited]).
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