In-Class 03/07/2013

The thesis statement is a paper's main idea, expressed as a provable claim. It needs to narrow a broad topic down to a specifc focus of investigation. In order to do this, you might need to brainstorm ideas by asking yourself questions about the broad topic. On your blog, address the following questions:

• What is the topic?
• What's invovled?
• Who's involved?
• What do I know about my topic?
• What problems/issues are found within my topic?
• What do I want to learn about the topic and its issues/problems?

After you've answered these questions, formulate a tentative thesis statement in the post that could be used as the main idea for your argumentative research paper. I will upload the sample breakdown (titled Narrowing the Topic) that we reviewed in class to the Content section of D2L. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.