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The Reading-Writing Connection

The Reading-Writing Connection. Writing In Response to reading. Devising a Working Thesis Consider Main Idea of Piece What Point Do You Want to Make?. Subject Vs. Thesis. Subject: Helping strangers Thesis: I think we are responsible for helping people in trouble

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The Reading-Writing Connection

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  1. The Reading-Writing Connection

  2. Writing In Response to reading

  3. Devising a Working Thesis Consider Main Idea of Piece What Point Do You Want to Make?

  4. Subject Vs. Thesis • Subject: Helping strangers • Thesis: I think we are responsible for helping people in trouble • Subject: Doing Something Socially Unacceptable • Thesis: As soon as I got to College, I set out to prove that I was an adult and beyond the control of my parents.

  5. Study Your Responses to Quotes • First Quote • What is the main idea of your response? • Second Quote • What is the main idea of your response? • Third Quote • What is the main idea of your response? Taken together, what thesis do these ideas suggest?

  6. An Example • Stokes said that movies should show better role models for girls and boys, but he’s not taking parenting into account. Parenting is more important than movies. • Stokes focuses on the effects of movie role models, but he neglects to take children’s temperaments and personalities into account. • Stokes focuses on the positive life lessons in The Wizard of Oz, but no movie can ever capture the complexity of life. POSSIBLE THESIS: In his TED talk, How Movies Teach Manhood, Colin Stokes suggests that movies need to provide better role models for boys because right now, they show boys inappropriate ways to deal with women. Stokes also makes a connection between poor movie role models and crime against women. While Stokes’ ideas about movie role models is accurate, he fails to consider other factors that have a great influence on children: parenting, individual personality, and the complexity of life.

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