PSYC37H3 Chapter 6: HTLB50 Tutorial OC 17
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Making an essay into one or two points. Promise you make to the reader of what you will prove. Focused, arguable, specifically about the text good// descriptive (in the main story the character is depressed), sweeping generalizations (since the dawn of time people have been writing essays), can either misread over read or under read the text. How to write a thesis: claim: where you state the argument you want to make about a test. Must be arguable not descriptive it must be a claim that someone could disagree with: strategy: where you explain to your reader how you plan to make your argument. A sort of road map" for the essay to follow: significance: the implications of your observations. In other words: so what? (keep it strict to the text don"t say anything like you will now understand depression for the rest of your life")
