Please find below a link to and edited version of today's powerpoint presentation.
p.s. Brian, if you can remember it, could you let me know in the comments section what your worry was about the final point in the list of things thesis statements should do. I have change the word 'prove' to the word 'support' but I expect that will not alter your basic - and possibly justified - uneasyness.
Powerpoint Presentation 4|2
2 comments:
Well, I have no problem with trying to prove a thesis statement (isn't that the whole point of writing essays?).
I think that the "the thesis statement must be an opinion, not a fact" requirement is silly. Without going into the semantics of what a "fact" is, could I not write an essay on the correlation between social acceptance and personal hygiene? Or would that be more of a report?
Anyways, I think I could make "there is strong evidence that there is a positive correlation between personal hygiene and social acceptance" a thesis statement for a paper. And it would take a lot of convincing for me to see that as a statement of opinion.
Sorry for the delay in replying. I meant to check up a couple of days ago and then forgot.
My only comment {given that I am about to go to sleep] is that, If some thing was a 'fact', then it would not be argueable and therefore would not need to be theorized.
With respect to the "there is strong evidence that there is a positive correlation between personal hygiene and social acceptance" quote, I think there is not doubt at all that that IS nothing but a Statement of opinion. Often for rhetorical purpose people say things are facts but in fact [and I think this IS a fact] they are not facts at all, only opinions.
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