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College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e Foreign Language Teaching And Research Press.
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Announcements
Ex.: I want to talk about the
crime wave in our country.
The sentence above merely tells
the subject of the paper.
A thesis statement must advance a
point about a limited subject.
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A Good Thesis
A good thesis is neither too broad nor too narrow:
too broad
Crime is a major concern of everyone in our country.
too narrow
My parents had only one child.
JUST RIGHT
A honeymoon is perhaps the worst way to begin a
marriage.
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