The biggest problem I am having with my paper is coming up with my thesis and making my argument strong enough. After the meeting yesterday I think I have a better idea of how I am going to get all of that done. The thesis is the biggest problem for me. I am doing Jayne’s greed from the Firefly episodes. I think I have a really good real world connection with the stock market and I still need to do some more research about all that. I am doing the Ariel episode and I need to make sure I get the analysis of that cleared up and I should be pretty good from there. I have came up with a couple thesis that haven’t been good enough but I think I have an idea of how to come up with a better one. I have all the ideas for the paper body but now I just need to figure out how to tie it all together and get my thesis done. I just need to make sure my thesis isn’t too general and that is the problem I have been having. I have been using words like everyone and everyday which is really hard to prove. I think I have got that part worked out but I still have to figure out how to get it worded and everything. I think it would be better if I just write the body of the paper and then come up with the thesis. Once I know what is all going to be in my paper then the thesis should come along better.
I have had a little bit of trouble with my thesis as well. What I've learned from my meeting is that you don't have to have just one straightforward statement as a thesis. You can build it up with supporting sentences. It might help to clearly formulate your main idea :)
ReplyDeleteI think my thesis is pretty solid but the real world connection is giving me a lot of problems.
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