Chapter 11
Chapter 11 covers the basis of developing your thesis statement. It starts off by explaining how to use sources and your position statement so you can then transform it into the draft of your thesis statement. You will be pulling information from your sources to help add onto your position statement. After reviewing/critically reading your sources and seeing if your position has changed over the course of the project, you can come down to your final place. From there you can start to draft your thesis statement. When drafting it helps to find important information ideas and arguments that are located in your position statement. Next you have to consider what kind of document it is that you'll be writing,and consider drafting alternative thesis's. Some for different kinds of thesis's you can do are ones that ask readers to learn a about something new, to change their attitudes and/or beliefs and then to ask them to take action. Finally you focus your thesis statement. Broad statements don't help encourage readers to learn anything new because for one reason, it doesn't provide an interesting hook that would intrigue people to read on. By focusing your thesis it provides points and asks questions that will hopefully bring someone to read your document further.