Making a Thesis Evolve

Several things stood out to me while reading this chapter. The first was that the thesis should not be obvious. The thesis is something that should be arguable and it is the author’s job to argue their point in the paper. Secondly, the thesis is where a problem is detected and the author must find evidence to support where he/she stands on the problem and how it should be resolved. Finally the thesis is the glue that holds the paper. Everything should relate back to the thesis, but it should also develop has the paper moves along.

Unlike the draft at the end of the paper my writing usually has a thesis that is very obvious and I find evidence to support that claim. There is just one main thesis, not several. Our writings are similar in the fact that my thesis usually does not develop as the paper moves along, but is simply restated and that I leave a lot of undeveloped observations. .

One thing I found interesting was that it suggested using the word another instead of next or also.