{"id":134,"date":"2017-07-11T23:04:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=134"},"modified":"2017-07-11T23:04:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:04:48","slug":"8-fun-with-thesis-statements","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/chapter\/8-fun-with-thesis-statements\/","title":{"raw":"8.Fun with Thesis Statements","rendered":"8.Fun with Thesis Statements"},"content":{"raw":"<h5>Fun with Thesis Statements - Due: Sept. 29<\/h5>\r\nTake a look at the following thesis statements. Many are poorly done: they are too vague, too broad or too confusing. A couple are pretty good. Identify the thesis statements you believe are poor and rewrite them to make them better. Identify the good statements by explaining why they are good. Good luck.","rendered":"<h5>Fun with Thesis Statements &#8211; Due: Sept. 29<\/h5>\n<p>Take a look at the following thesis statements. Many are poorly done: they are too vague, too broad or too confusing. A couple are pretty good. Identify the thesis statements you believe are poor and rewrite them to make them better. Identify the good statements by explaining why they are good. Good luck.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-134\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Jeff Meyers. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Clinton Community College. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":23590,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"Jeff Meyers\",\"organization\":\"Clinton Community College\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-134","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":119,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/134\/revisions\/302"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/119"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/134\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}