Module 6: Identifying Your Thesis and Using a Reverse Outline
Module 6: Identifying Your Thesis and Using a Reverse Outline
In this module, you will learn how to identify and strengthen your thesis statement. You will also create a reverse outline of your
paper.
6-1 Reading: Thesis Statements
Reading: Thesis Statements
Because the thesis statement is the backbone of the essay, writers often
feel a lot of pressure to come up with a final, polished version of the
statement right from the start. In fact, in previous coursework, you were
probably asked to come up with a thesis statement before drafting an
essay. The problem with that method is that our perceptions and writing
changes over time, so a thesis statement that was written at the start of
the writing process may not end up aligning with ideas in the most recent
draft.
Now that you have already begun the process of drafting your critical
analysis essay, you are ready to construct your thesis statement. In 5-4:
Assignment 2, Milestone 1
, you identified your claim, an opinion about
your selected article. This claim will now become the basis for your thesis
statement. Thesis statements not only announce the main claim of the
essay, they also often provide the specific examples the essay will
address in order to support the main claim.
When you first begin writing essays, it can be helpful to think of thesis statements as having two parts:
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Module 6: Identifying Your Thesis and Using a Reverse Outline
In this module, you will learn how to identify and strengthen your thesis statement. You will also create a reverse outline of your
paper.
6-1 Reading: Thesis Statements
Reading: Thesis Statements
Because the thesis statement is the backbone of the essay, writers often
feel a lot of pressure to come up with a final, polished version of the
statement right from the start. In fact, in previous coursework, you were
probably asked to come up with a thesis statement before drafting an
essay. The problem with that method is that our perceptions and writing
changes over time, so a thesis statement that was written at the start of
the writing process may not end up aligning with ideas in the most recent
draft.
Now that you have already begun the process of drafting your critical
analysis essay, you are ready to construct your thesis statement. In 5-4:
Assignment 2, Milestone 1
, you identified your claim, an opinion about
your selected article. This claim will now become the basis for your thesis
statement. Thesis statements not only announce the main claim of the
essay, they also often provide the specific examples the essay will
address in order to support the main claim.
When you first begin writing essays, it can be helpful to think of thesis statements as having two parts:
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