{"id":199,"date":"2016-05-12T18:06:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=199"},"modified":"2016-07-19T17:58:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T17:58:44","slug":"outcome-thesis-1-5","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/chapter\/outcome-thesis-1-5\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: Thesis","rendered":"Outcome: Thesis"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Analyze 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\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-783\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2016\/06\/03150742\/8419867755_cc7b794d65_z-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"cat in front of an open book, being held in the lap of a woman in the background\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/>\r\n\r\nQuestioning the text you're 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<h2>What You'll Learn To Do<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>analyze explicit thesis statements in texts<\/li>\r\n \t<li>analyze implicit thesis statements in texts<\/li>\r\n \t<li>analyze strategies for using thesis statements to predict content of texts<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>The Learning Activities for\u00a0This Outcome Include<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter type-1\">Video: Explicit Versus Implicit Thesis Statements<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter type-1\">Text: Thesis and Topic Sentences<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter type-1\">Self Check: Thesis<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter type-1\">Try It: Thesis<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<h2>Analyze 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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-783\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2016\/06\/03150742\/8419867755_cc7b794d65_z-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"cat in front of an open book, being held in the lap of a woman in the background\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Questioning the text you&#8217;re 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<h2>What You&#8217;ll Learn To Do<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>analyze explicit thesis statements in texts<\/li>\n<li>analyze implicit thesis statements in texts<\/li>\n<li>analyze strategies for using thesis statements to predict content of texts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Learning Activities for\u00a0This Outcome Include<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\">Video: Explicit Versus Implicit Thesis Statements<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\">Text: Thesis and Topic Sentences<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\">Self Check: Thesis<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\">Try It: Thesis<\/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-199\">\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":19,"menu_order":35,"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":"4d307458-7f36-4058-9376-321a0fe21db2","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-199","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/199\/revisions\/1511"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/199\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}