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Thesis Statements

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Thesis Statements

Focusing your writing attention
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‘You may be able to write a sentence; you still have to learn how to write a good sentence, and before you can do that, you have to know what a good sentence is’.

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‘“Good,” is a measure that cannot be reduced to a set of features or a taxonomy. You cannot produce a good sentence . . . by consulting a recipe’ (p. 45).

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Strunk and White is of limited value until you know your purpose, what you are trying to do with your writing.

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‘If you ask American students to read a prose passage out loud, they sit paralyzed with fright’.
'They must pay attention to words in a new way, and they find this acutely uncomfortable’ (p. 18).

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Good essays begin with strong thesis statements.

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But there is
much more
to a good essay.

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Stay tuned.

J R Radney

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