ENG1100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 52 pages long!)
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English 1100 lecture 3 topic to thesis, paragraphs. We will follow the textbook for all the rules about comma usage. By turning the topic into a question and answering it, you are developing a thesis. But by giving a tentative answer the topic question, or by recognizing you do not have an answer means that you need to do some research. Formulating a thesis tends to come after you have done some research, but then your thesis will direct you to more research. Your thesis is the conclusion you have arrived at about the topic. Your thesis is the main point you are making in the essay. Everything in the essay is there to support the thesis or main claim. A claim is a statement that is either true or false, so your thesis is a truth statement that you are trying to prove or try and convince the reader that it is true.