{"id":574,"date":"2020-01-06T18:27:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T18:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/coreqenglish1\/chapter\/outcome-thesis-1-5\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T21:53:21","slug":"introduction-to-thesis-statements-and-topic-sentences","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/chapter\/introduction-to-thesis-statements-and-topic-sentences\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Thesis Statements and Topic Sentences","rendered":"Introduction to Thesis Statements and Topic Sentences"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: identify, analyze,\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">and create effective <\/span>thesis statements<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"wp-image-783 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2016\/06\/03150742\/8419867755_cc7b794d65_z-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Decorative image.\" width=\"338\" height=\"225\" \/>\r\n\r\nBeing able to identify the purpose and thesis of a text while you\u2019re reading takes practice, and it is an essential skill to successful writing. Powerful thesis statements are an effective and important element of almost every writing assignment in college.\r\n\r\nBefore we begin crafting our own thesis statements, we'll begin by practicing finding thesis statements. When trying to isolate the thesis in a piece of text,\u00a0consider these questions:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>What is the primary subject of this text?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Is the author trying to inform me or persuade me?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>What does the author think I need to know about this subject?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Why\u00a0does the author think I need to know about this subject?<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nSometimes the answer to these questions will be very clearly stated in the text itself. Sometimes it is less obvious, and in those cases, the techniques on the following pages will be useful.","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do: identify, analyze,\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">and create effective <\/span>thesis statements<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-783 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2016\/06\/03150742\/8419867755_cc7b794d65_z-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Decorative image.\" width=\"338\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Being able to identify the purpose and thesis of a text while you\u2019re reading takes practice, and it is an essential skill to successful writing. Powerful thesis statements are an effective and important element of almost every writing assignment in college.<\/p>\n<p>Before we begin crafting our own thesis statements, we&#8217;ll begin by practicing finding thesis statements. When trying to isolate the thesis in a piece of text,\u00a0consider these questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the primary subject of this text?<\/li>\n<li>Is the author trying to inform me or persuade me?<\/li>\n<li>What does the author think I need to know about this subject?<\/li>\n<li>Why\u00a0does the author think I need to know about this subject?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes the answer to these questions will be very clearly stated in the text itself. Sometimes it is less obvious, and in those cases, the techniques on the following pages will be useful.<\/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-574\">\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>Outcome: Thesis. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <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 class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Image of cat with book. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: TheGiantVermin. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/dQ32kH\">https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/dQ32kH<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-ND: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives <\/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":29,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Image of cat with book\",\"author\":\"TheGiantVermin\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/dQ32kH\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc-nd\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Outcome: Thesis\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"cf828f0b-5702-42c7-a127-57b84c563445","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-574","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":42,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6466,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/574\/revisions\/6466"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/42"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/574\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}