Chapter 9: Thesis

While reading this chapter, one of the points that stood out to me was that they encourage a writer not to ignore contradictory evidence. This evidence should be used no matter what, which would help the writer evolve their thesis into a new and better one. Also, despite how seemingly obvious it is, a thesis is what holds the parts of the paper together. It connects the beginning, middle, and end, which is important if you want to keep your thesis organized. The writer for the painting writes by asking the reader a bunch of questions to make us think while reading. I don’t do that very often but the writing is building up a thesis that is evolving which is something I have not done often. We build up evidence similarly though.