Do not use periods / full stops (.) at the end or capital letters at the beginning of the phrases you write.Answer questions in short phrases (not full sentences).What’s the main argument against your opinion?Īs they use this thesis generator, students are instructed to:.What’s a second good argument that supports your opinion?.What’s the strongest argument supporting your opinion?.What’s your main opinion on this topic?.What’s the topic you want to write about?.This site asks students to respond to a series of questions: My favorite, and easiest to use, is the Tom March Thesis Builder Instead of expecting well-developed thesis statements, teachers could have student test drive a thesis statement by using one of several online tools known as “thesis generators.” These online tools are free and allow students the opportunity to practice with different ideas as they prepare to write an essay. The word essay also means a “trial, test an effort, attempt.” An essay is literally “an initial tentative effort the result or product of an attempt” and a thesis statement is a student’s position in such an effort or attempt….a “test drive” of sorts.
Maybe the emphasis on a well-developed thesis as the start to the essay is misplaced.Īfter all, according to Webster’s Online Dictionary, an essay (noun) has another meaning beyond “a short piece of writing that tells a person’s thoughts or opinions about a subject”. Maybe the problem of writing a thesis statement is that so many teachers in middle and high school expect that students must have a well-written thesis statement before they can write an essay. One might conclude that students in grades 7-12 have a thesis statement problem…or maybe not. “So….what problems do your students have writing?” I ask high school teachers. “So….what problems do your students have in writing?” I ask middle school teachers.
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