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Writing Your Thesis Statement Now, that you’ve done your research, it’s time to organize your ideas. Start by writing a thesis statement. Then arrange your ideas in an outline.

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Writing Your Thesis Statement. Now, that you’ve done your research, it’s time to organize your ideas. Start by writing a thesis statement. Then arrange your ideas in an outline. What is a thesis statement?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Writing Your Thesis Statement

Writing Your Thesis Statement

Now, that you’ve done your research, it’s time to organize your ideas. Start by writing a thesis statement. Then

arrange your ideas in an outline.

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What is a thesis statement?

• Your thesis statement tells what your report is all about. A good thesis statement starts with an interesting topic and then focuses on an important detail about the topic.

• Interesting topic + important detail =

thesis statement

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Interesting topic:Daniel Boone’s exploration

+Important Detail:helped early Americans go west.

=Thesis statement:Daniel Boone’s exploration helped early

Americans go west.

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More examples of Thesis Statements:

• 1. The English Quaker William Penn (an interesting topic) founded the Pennsylvania colony to provide religious and political freedom (an important detail).

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More examples of Thesis Statements:

• 2. Anne Bradstreet was a poet in the 1600s (an interesting topic) who wrote poems about family, women, faith, and politics in Massachusetts (an important detail).

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Create Your Thesis Statement

• Review your notes and write a thesis statement about the most important accomplishment of the person you will write about.