1. The Ingredients to a Fantastic Thesis
Thesis Structure
The Ingredients to a Fantastic Thesis

2. The Recipe Thesis: Your opinion Stated as a fact + The “HOW”
A fantastic Thesis

3. Rhetorically Accurate Verb
The Ingredients
The ingredients can be ‘mixed’ in any order. The order will cater to your ‘voice’. Make the thesis sound like YOU! Do not simply copy my style, but work with what sounds best to you.
HOW?
Rhetorically Accurate Verb
asserts
Story title
Argues
Suggests
The Author's Name
Author’s Argument

4. Sample Theses for “The Scarlet Ibis”
What is the main question we have to answer?
Can love and cruelty coexist?
Sample 1 (positive)
James Hurst, in his short story “The Scarlet Ibis”, argues that love and cruelty can coexist – HOW? –
If love and cruelty can exist together in a `happy place, what is the relationship between the two emotions?
One might say that they rely upon each other …
James Hurst, in his short story “The Scarlet Ibis” argues that love and cruelty can coexist because they rely upon each other to subsist.

5. Sample Theses Continued
Sample 2 (Negative)
In the story “The Scarlet Ibis” written by James Hurst, he argues that love and cruelty cannot coexist – HOW –
If love and cruelty cannot exist together happily, what keeps them from it?
Some would say that cruelty and love are actually opposites.
In the story “The Scarlet Ibis” written by James Hurst, he argues that love and cruelty cannot coexist because they are opposite human emotions.