{"id":194,"date":"2016-06-09T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level3-english\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=194"},"modified":"2017-04-30T19:06:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T19:06:36","slug":"outcome-thesis-1-5","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/chapter\/outcome-thesis-1-5\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: Thesis","rendered":"Outcome: Thesis"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Evaluate thesis ideas of texts<\/h2>\r\nBeing able to identify the purpose and thesis of a text, while you\u2019re reading it, takes practice. This section will\u00a0offer you that practice.\r\n\r\nQuestioning the text you\u2019re reading is a good place to start. When trying to isolate the thesis, or main idea, of your reading material, consider 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.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-198\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2016\/06\/10162422\/arrows-1262403_640.png\" alt=\"Graphic showing concentric blue arrows moving clockwise, with the word Evaluation as the starting and end point\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" \/>Once the thesis idea is identified, your role as a reader is to evaluate how effective that thesis is in the text. Does this thesis, and the text as a whole, fulfill its purpose? Are you, the reader, changed by reading the text in the way that was intended by the author?\r\n<h2>What You Will Learn To Do<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>evaluate explicit thesis statements in texts<\/li>\r\n \t<li>evaluate implicit thesis statements in texts<\/li>\r\n \t<li>evaluate strategies for using thesis statements to predict content of texts<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<h2>Evaluate thesis ideas of texts<\/h2>\n<p>Being able to identify the purpose and thesis of a text, while you\u2019re reading it, takes practice. This section will\u00a0offer you that practice.<\/p>\n<p>Questioning the text you\u2019re reading is a good place to start. When trying to isolate the thesis, or main idea, of your reading material, consider 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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-198\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2016\/06\/10162422\/arrows-1262403_640.png\" alt=\"Graphic showing concentric blue arrows moving clockwise, with the word Evaluation as the starting and end point\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" \/>Once the thesis idea is identified, your role as a reader is to evaluate how effective that thesis is in the text. Does this thesis, and the text as a whole, fulfill its purpose? Are you, the reader, changed by reading the text in the way that was intended by the author?<\/p>\n<h2>What You Will Learn To Do<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>evaluate explicit thesis statements in texts<\/li>\n<li>evaluate implicit thesis statements in texts<\/li>\n<li>evaluate strategies for using thesis statements to predict content of texts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-194\">\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 evaluation. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: geralt. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/arrows-district-evaluation-1262403\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/arrows-district-evaluation-1262403\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/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":19,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Image of evaluation\",\"author\":\"geralt\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/arrows-district-evaluation-1262403\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Outcome: Thesis\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"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-194","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1837,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/194\/revisions\/1706"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1837"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/194\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}