Develop a Thesis – Flashcards

High school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering college in order to increase their maturity and global awareness.

While both Northerners and Southerners believed they fought against tyranny and oppression, Northerners focused on the oppression of slaves while Southerners defended their own right to self-government.

State several central ideas in your thesis statement.

thesis

Example persuasive thesis: Cooking healthy foods can be fun, very tasty, and can teach you a lot about what you are eating. Example informative thesis: To be healthy, children need to eat lots of different foods. Grains, vegetables, and dairy products each benefit your body in a different way.

Privacy on the Internet should be more protected with a stricter ban and harsher penalties for identity theft, because each person has the fundamental right to have absolute control over his or her personal information.

You can use a thesis statement to help you support the main ideas of your speech.

Open with an attention getting question, story, or anecdote, then quote her thesis statement.

Example persuasive thesis: Gun laws are the cause of much violent crime in America, and should be changed to require all gun purchasers to undergo a psychological exam, an FBI background check, and an extensive training course prior to obtaining a permit. Example informative thesis: How gun control laws affect the crime rate has been the subject of much debate in America, with one side claiming it should be easier for Americans to purchase handguns, while the other side claims laws should be much stricter.

All nations must unite to address the 4 main causes of global warming: natural causes, pollution, increase in population, and deforestation.

declarative

The organizational structure of the United Nations, namely consensus voting in the security council, makes it incapable of preventing war between major powers. The United States should propose the United Nations be given the ability to prevent war(s) in the future.

thesis

Candidates often use television advertising while campaigning for election to the Senate, because television reaches millions of people and thus has the ability to dramatically increase name recognition.

asks a question

When the audience hears the thesis, it should be clear that the least important goal of your speech is to inform the audience about your topic.

persuasive

The main cause of global warming is human behavior.

Restate his thesis and end with a memorable narrative or quotation.

Often dismissed because it is animated, The Simpsons treats the issue of ethnicity more powerfully than did the critically praised All In The Family.

Vouchers in higher education do not improve our public schools and colleges, because experiments show us that education vouchers divert much-needed public funds for the few and have weakened the entire system.

Three major themes of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter are sin, forgiveness, and past vs. present.

central idea; theme