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Mastering Thesis Statements: A Guide to Enhancing Your Essay Writing Skills

Enhance your essay writing skills by refining thesis statements and improving introductions and conclusions. Join the journey of crafting compelling essays based on "The Things They Carried" using targeted methods and techniques.

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Mastering Thesis Statements: A Guide to Enhancing Your Essay Writing Skills

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  1. Warm Up 10/14 • Get a Chrome Book! (When you do, go to the blog!) • Pull up your rough draft. • Don’t write any responses, but instead, just consider these questions: did you finish your three body paragraphs? If not, what do you need to do today?

  2. Learning Targets • To use the assignment sheet for the essay on The Things They Carried as a guide for our work. • To finish our first drafts of the TTTC Style Analysis Essay.

  3. Steps to Completing Your Work Today: • Complete drill. • Look over the suggested introductory paragraph format (slide 4). Figure out how you can • Apply the funnel method, while still incorporating both a synopsis of the book AND your thesis statement. • Refine your thesis statement • Look over the suggested concluding paragraph format. Figure out how to • Rephrase the thesis. • Apply the backwards-funnel method.

  4. Introductory Paragraph – the Funnel Method • Your intro should be at least three sentences long: • Begins with a broad, general statement about the topic (put your synopsis here). • Follows with narrower, more specific statements about the topic (connect your synopsis to your thesis statement) • Final sentence is thesis statement.

  5. Thesis Statement Refinement ***This is the single most important sentence in your essay.*** • To get to your final thesis, you'll need to refine your draft thesis so that it's specific and arguable. • Ask yourself if your draft thesis addresses the assignment • Question each part of your draft thesis • Clarify vague phrases and assertions • Investigate alternatives to your draft thesis (what else could you say? Would that statement be more effective than what you’ve written?)

  6. Conclusion Format • Use (almost) the opposite format to what you used for your introduction paragraph: • Thesis – restate it, using different words to say the same thing. • Sentence two – restate your synopsis. • Sentence three – write a general statement that wraps up your work and transitions your reader from your essay to real life.

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