Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Introductions
Conclusions
Conclusions
content
Serves as an assertion about essays content
Highlights all main topics covered in essay
exclude information
Forecasts authors discussion
Specific
Dont be too broad!
be made
After drafting, success of working thesis can be
evaluated
Working thesis statements CHANGE!
Review of a Controversy
Like historical, but shows why issue is debated
Question
Ask simple question that isnt all that simple to
answer
scientific essays)
Solution/recommendation
Essays about problems/controversy can give what
should be done
another source
Quotation
Helps gain authority and credibility
Question
Calls on readers to assume an active role by offering
Speculation
Get the reader thinking about possibilities
Consider what might happen as well as what has
happened
another source
Quotation
Helps gain authority and credibility
Question
Calls on readers to assume an active role by offering
Speculation
Get the reader thinking about possibilities
Consider what might happen as well as what has
happened
For Thursday...
Read Chapter 1 (summary, paraphrase, and
quotation) pgs. 3-50