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Thesis Statement
Role
Characteristics
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Role of Thesis Statement
• States IN A SINGLE SENTENCE what the argument of the essay will be
• Every paragraph must support some aspect of it (it defines the structure to follow)
• Therefore, Provides STRUCTURE for the Essay
• Helps the Writer and Helps the reader
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A Good Thesis Statement must be
• UNIFIED: since the thesis statement provides the structure and argument for the essay, it must have only one main clause, or you will have a divided paper
• FOCUSED: the thesis statement must provide a focus for the analysis that will follow since all analysis will point back to some aspect of it.
• ASSERTIVE: must provide a point for the essay
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AVOID
• Use of “to be” verbs in thesis statement especially if the predicate merely renames the subject (Predicate Nominative or Predicate Adjective)
• e/.g. “Okonkwo is an ideal Ibo warrior.”
• Vague predicates– Interesting
– Great
– Important
– Really good
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Sample problems
• “Okonkwo is an ideal warrior among the Ibo.”
• “Okonkwo exhibits many Ibo ideals, but the Ibo have an imbalanced view of gender, like Creon.
• “Okonkwo fails to grow.”
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Does this Work?
• Although Okonkwo exhibits many masculine ideals of the Ibo people,
• he fails to learn the deeper foundation of these values in the feminine
• because fear and rigidity prevent him from fully growing up.
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Does this Work?
• Okonkwo’s rigidity, motivated by a fear of being like his father, helps him achieve great things, but
• ironically leads to his downfall, due to his inability to adapt to change.