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I Want to Know How to Write My Thesis in a Week

A thesis statement is the heart of a written work. It is vital, not only to your paper, but to your audience. It is the guide to keeping you on message, as well as a guide for your audience to follow as they read. The worst thing that can happen is for your audience to get lost and disinterested as they’re reading. Whether or not it is specifically assigned to include a thesis, it is always best to build a paper around one. It will only make it that much better. Given a week, here is a guideline on how to write your thesis.

Identifying the heart.

A well written thesis statement is a sentence that will clearly communicate:

  • the topic
  • your approach to the topic,
  • your direction and scope
  • where you will place emphasis

It will serve as a roadmap that reflects your purpose. It has to be carefully worded in a direct manner. Make sure not to weaken your credibility by using language that indicates you are motivated by opinion over observation, experience, and research.

You won’t get it the first time.

First of all, it is important to know that formulating a thesis is a developmental process. You will receive your assignment and the first thing you will do is decide on a topic, if one is not already assigned. Once decided, write down what you think about the topic, where you stand, indentify your audience, and where you want to take them with your paper. From this, compile a sentence of your purpose. If you can’t stuff it all in one sentence, it’s OK, but keep in mind your thesis statement will fit in one sentence.

It’s all in the process.

In developing any paper, you will be constructing an outline and doing any amount of research. They will affect each other, and as default, will affect your thesis.

Your research may result in theories and perspectives you may have never considered before. Exposure to the wealth of information you may be confronted with can change many things about your initial approach. This is OK as well. You don’t have to subject yourself to submitting to a thesis that will no longer work for you. Let the process take you where it leads.

As your original thesis may change, so will your outline. When you have done enough research, it can be organized to determine exactly where you want to go and how you will get there. You can now effectively construct your thesis statement using the finalized outline.

Be content with your final thesis statement.

Your thesis should be more than a statement of fact and an announcement of intent. It should be a clear, direct way of portraying your paper in its entirety, in a nutshell.

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