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How a Thesis Statement Fits With the Rest of the Essay 2129 Views


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The London Bridge may be falling down, falling down, falling down....but your essay will be one stalwart structure that stands the tests of time.

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Thank you We sneak in how a thesis statement fits

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with the rest of the essay Allah shmoop and s

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a is like a bridge from one place to another

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Hopefully a better one Your reader is fleeing their horrible

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homeland a place of ignorance fear and misinformation You're leading

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them to enlightenment Aren't you just the best you say

00:24

You don't know anything about building bridges Well here's a

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quick architecture lesson A bridge needs a keystone this thing

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or it'll fall apart An essay needs a keystone to

00:38

in an essay that would be your thesis Let's Talk

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about where to place your keystone so that your bridge

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doesn't collapse crushing your readers under the weight of some

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truly painful writing Your thesis is probably the first sentence

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you write or at least it's up there after all

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it's The whole reason you're writing this thing in the

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first place however the first time you write it it's

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going to be a little lumpy but it's also going

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to be the last sentence You right you'll need to

01:05

return to your thesis after writing your paper and chisel

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it to fit perfectly like this guy If your essay

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goes way off topic you may need to change your

01:14

thesis entirely Well let's say you initially thought you were

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going to write about how bridges bring people together But

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you end up focusing on how bridges just cause horrible

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traffic jams Guess what it's totally okay to change your

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thesis What You want to refine your thesis shape its

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edges make it a specific as possible Ask yourself questions

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about your essay then answer Why do bridges cause horrible

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traffic jams Because they have few lanes because people are

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scared to drive on them and go slow Include all

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that in your thesis No pressure but your thesis needs

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to be perfect Okay that's A lot of pressure we

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admitted but pressure makes diamonds Once you shaped your thesis

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where does it go A keystone for bridge usually goes

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in the middle of the structure but that's a bad

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place for a thesis statement You also don't want to

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put it at the very beginning of your essay or

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at the end that's How things fall apart No not

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the book The best place for your thesis is the

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last line of your introductory paragraph or thereabout It sounds

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tough but crafting and fitting your faces is simple It

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needs to be concise specific On on topic On it

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should go with the end of your introductory paragraph Following

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these rules will keep your readers from being crushed to

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death Or at least save them from a nasty paper

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cut as they rapidly flip through the pages racing to 00:02:58.818 --> [endTime] get to the end Oh oh oh

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