2. Aim: How do you compose an effective thesis?

3. Aim: How do you compose an effective thesis?
Argumentative
Controversial
Analytical
not Evaluative
About the readings,
not the real world

4. Aim: How do you compose an effective thesis?
Topic
Thesis vs
General
Specific
Objective
Subjective
Word or phrase
Sentence
What do you see?
What are you saying ABOUT what you see?

5. Aim: How do you compose an effective thesis?+ =
Thesis + =
Analogy between
his love and summer
Significance?
Consequence?
Reason?
The speaker draws an analogy between love and summer to develop the timeless nature of her beauty.

7. Aim: How do you compose an effective thesis?
That's not a case, only a general area.
A thesis, on the other hand, makes a specific case; it tries to prove something.
One way to tell a thesis from a topic: if it doesn't have an active verb, it's almost certainly still a topic.

8. Aim: How do you compose an effective thesis?
That's the business of book reviewers.
No need to give thumbs-up or thumbs-down; evaluate the work on its own terms.

9. Aim: How do you compose an effective thesis?
It doesn't say much — just some vague indication that a topic is worth attention.
It's easy to change any topic to this kind of wishy-washy thesis, but the word "important" (like its synonyms, "significant," "worth consideration," and so on) won't do.
This thesis is also weak because it's not controversial — who in his or her right mind would argue with it? Yeah, Moll is obsessed with money, and it's obvious to anyone who opens the book.
You have to say something that's not obvious.

10. Aim: How do you compose an effective thesis?
Too
Factual
Too
broad
Thesis
Too
vague

11. Aim: How do you compose an effective thesis?
·Too Factual: The first polygraph was developed by Dr. John A. Larson.
·Revised: Because the polygraph has not been proved reliable, even under the most controlled conditions, its use by private employers should be banned (Consequence).

12. Aim: How do you compose an effective thesis?
·Too Broad: Mapping the human genome has many implications for health and science.
·Revised: Although scientists can now detect genetic predisposition to specific diseases, not everyone should be tested for these diseases. (Significance)

13. Aim: How do you compose an effective thesis?
·Too Vague: The way the TV show ER portrays doctors and nurses is interesting.
·Revised: The writers of ER dramatize the experiences of doctors and nurses to portray health care professionals as unfailingly caring and noble. (Reason)

14. In each of the following pairs, which sentence might work well as a thesis for a short paper?
What is the problem with the other one? Too Factual, too broad, or too vague?

15. Too Broad

16. Too Vague

17. Too Factual

18. Too Broad

19. Too Factual

20. = = + + Aim: How do you compose an effective thesis? Thesis
Success is like...
Significance?
Consequence?
Reason?
What you are saying ABOUT what you see
mountain climbing!