Chapter Eleven - Developing Your Thesis Statement

Well first off, well developing your thesis statement you want to make sure it carries your main point to your reader as long as really pulls them in to your paper. In the Bedford Researcher it talks about using your sources and your position statement to really complete your thesis. The book says to review your position statement and your notes to find what you are really passionate about there and what will make a strong thesis. You also want to be thinking about your point of writing the paper and what is the one thing you really want to be clear throughout your paper. As well as thinking about who your audience is and what will pull them in and how to go about writing something that, while being powerful is still easy to understand. Then the book talks about learning how to draft your thesis statement. You want to create a lot of options for yourself when drafting because only you will see them and sometimes it makes it easier when you can mix and match different ideas together. Once you have ideas and information put down it is time to narrow your thesis statement in to something that can really clearly explain your paper. This chapter was helpful to me because it opened my eyes to how much should go in to writing a thesis statement.