Thesis

  I have always known that the thesis is a generalization of your paper but I have never known that it can be so broad.  The thesis is also the one thing that holds a paper together; connecting the beginning middle and end.  Also in a paper, the main idea in the body paragraphs relates back to the thesis.  For me, I am always slow to start out my thesis, but once I figure it out I can make a good thesis statement.  Another reason I have trouble starting thesis is because I think to narrow when the thesis needs to be a broad statement.