14) Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. In this post, I am going to reflect the time when Professor Mangini explained how to write the thesis statement and structure for the research paper. It was the most precious time for me that solved all the mystery about research paper. Plus, it is also knowledgeable to share to other people.
Thesis statement is crucial for the research paper because it inform the brief introduction about our whole research paper. Thus, knowing how to write the research paper is the most important and hardest one to do so. At first, I was lost since from beginning when writing the research paper. Once I get this information, I became to realize what to do with the thesis statement. Professor Mangini said that like GPS (Global Positioning System) which inform the location or time anywhere on the Earth or near the Earth, TPS (Topic, Position, Support) define the thesis statement. When writing the thesis statement, our topic should say about our paper, position is what we want to say about the topic, and support is to show the evidence for our position. He also gave an example that universal health care should apply in America because it will save lives, save money and save our humanity. In that example, we can see the overall paper of the writer's topic: universal health care, position: should apply in America and support: how the writer will defend his position. For the research paper structure, there are three portions: Introduction, Body, Conclusion. Each portion should be linked to each other to result stronger argument. In this paragraph, I am going to summarize how he described to us. First of all, introduction should provide information about the background, content and exigent matter of the paper. The main purpose of the research paper is to make the argument and persuade the readers to our claim. It is key to grab the attention from the readers to convince our arguments. How can we get them? Putting quotes and opening Annerdote about the topic we are going to make in the paper can help to get the interest. Once we get the attention, we can bridge to our thesis statement. After that, we move to the body paragraph. The first step to start a body is writing the topic sentence. Topic sentence should include the focus point of the paragraph. Once we gained it, we can jump right into the claim our opinions. Whenever we make the claim, we have to prove with the evidences. Evidences came from our research. And then, reconnect back to the thesis to notice the whole of the paper. Finally, there are some ways to conclude. As a first step of the conclusion, we can review the content in the body or review the thesis or make full circle of the process. Subsequently, we can put "closing quotes" or "question and answer" or "prediction for the future", that is the end the paper. Indeed, writing a research paper is a scary dream before we know how to write it. I do really thank to our Professor Mangini for his lecture. In the future, for English Composition II or whatever classes, we can apply this knowledge in writing the research paper.
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Sabatino
12/7/2017 04:34:53 pm
This post provides nice insights into our class about writing thesis statements and building source-based arguments. I am glad our discussion and examples proved helpful to you!
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