ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thesis Statement, List Of Fables Characters

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Gaye Taylor

Document Summary

A strong thesis statement: is a condensation of your argument takes a stand, and indicates how you will proceed to argue for the validity of this stand. A strong thesis grows out of well-chosen, carefully evaluated, and well presented evidence because it is by working through your evidence that you test and refine your working thesis statement. Evidence must be: (1) well chosen: discipline-specific and tuned into your target audience (2) strategically ordered for value/power (3) honestly presented (4) contextualized, integrated, and explained (5) acknowledged (cited and documented) Note: statistics are not facts, they are interpretations. Sometimes your argument will demand a cumulative ordering of proofs (from simple to complex) In other cases, your options are more open. Ideally all the bits of your argument will be equally strong, but such ideal cases are rare. It is often advised to put your weakest/most straightforward claim first. Put your most complex material in the middle.