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State your topic.  \n2. State your opinion/main idea about this topic.  \nThis will form the heart of your thesis. An effective statement will  \n● express one major idea.  \n● name the topic and assert something speciϐic about it.  \n● be a more speciϐic statement than the topic statement above.  \n● take a stance on an issue about which reasonable people might disagree.  \n● state your position on or opinion about the issue.  \n3. Give the strongest reason or assertion that supports your opinion/main idea.  \n4. Give another strong reason or assertion that supports your opinion/main idea.  \nAdapted from:  \nCopyright 2000, Elizabeth Abrams, for the Writing Center at Harvard University Copyright 1998, Pat Bellanca, for the Writing Center at Harvard University  \n5. Give one more strong reason or assertion that supports your opinion/main idea.  \n6. Include an opposing viewpoint to your opinion/main idea, if applicable. This should be an argument for the opposing view that you admit has some merit, even if you do not agree with the overall viewpoint.  \nAfter reading your thesis statement, the reader should think, \"This essay is going to try to convince me of something. I'm not convinced yet, but I'm interested to see how I might be.\"  \nA good thesis has two parts. It should tell what you plan to argue, and it should \"telegraph\"how you plan to argue—that is, what particular support for your claim is going where in your essay.  \n\"While cultural forces contributed to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the disintegration of economies played the key role in driving its decline\" is an effective thesis sentence that \"telegraphs,\" so that the reader expects the essay to have a section about cultural forces and another about the disintegration of economies.  \nThis thesis makes a deϐinite, arguable claim: that the disintegration of economies played amore important role than cultural forces in defeating communism in Eastern Europe. The reader would react to this statement by thinking, \"Perhaps what the author says is true, but I am not convinced. I want to read further to see how the author argues this claim.\"  \nAdapted from:  \nCopyright 2000, Elizabeth Abrams, for the Writing Center at Harvard University Copyright 1998, Pat Bellanca, for the Writing Center at Harvard University  \nINTRODUCTION  \nYour beginning should introduce the essay, focus it, and orient readers.  \nIntroduce the Essay. The beginning lets your readers know what the essay is about, the topic. The essay's topic does not exist in a vacuum, however; part of letting readers know what your essay is about means establishing the essay's context, the frame within which you will approach your topic. For instance, in an essay about the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech, the context may be a particular legal theory about the speech right; it may be historical information concerning the writing of the amendment; it may be a contemporary dispute over ϐlag burning; or it may be a question raised by the text itself. The point here is that, in establishing the essay's context, you are also limiting your topic. That is, you are framing an approach to your topic that necessarily eliminates other approaches. Thus, when you determine your context, you simultaneously narrow your topic and take a big step toward focusing your essay. Here's an example.  \nWhen Kate Chopin 's novel The Awakening was published in 1899, critics condemned the book as immoral. One typical critic, writing in the Providence Journal, feared that the novel might \"fall into the hands ofyouth, leading them to dwell on things that only matured persons can understand, and promotin","cbCaikC9faUIg8II","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikC9faUIg8II","pdf",391428,13,"English","# THESIS\n## Thesis Statement Guide Development Tool\n## INTRODUCTION","[{\"question\":\"What are the steps to formulate a thesis statement in these notes?\",\"answer\":\"The notes instruct you to state your topic, state your opinion/main idea, then provide the strongest supporting reasons. 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