Your thesis statement is the most important part of your paper. After your introduction, your thesis should explain the continuum of your essay, and develop on it. It should only be one or two sentences long, placed at the very end of your introduction paragraph. This sentence is responsible for indicating the central idea of the topic, which differs from the topic itself, as well as capture your position on the issue or idea.
Today we will use an example from a very unique politic, Donald Trump, and his very unique statement, “we need to build a wall.” Please note that we do not endorse Donald Trump nor are we advertising his presidential campaign, we are merely utilizing his example to provide and illustration to our audience.
We need to build a wall.
Is that convincing? I didn’t think so.
But, you may note, this did everything a simple thesis should do; it indicated the central idea of the topic, and captured his position. But we aren’t settling for a simple thesis.
Since he made a subjective choice, he must provide evidence for it or it means nothing to his intended audience. So we will improve this by adding to it.
We need to build a wall because the population of terrorists is rising in the United States.
There we go, getting better. But he needs to be clear and concise here, he cannot just assume that listeners understand exactly what he means. Can you pick out the word that might be confusing? I’ll give you a hint, it starts with wall and sounds like wall. Yes! That’s the one. He needs to explain exactly what he means by wall in this statement, not throughout the remainder of his speech.
We need to build a wall along the border because the population of terrorists is rising in the United States.
Improving. But there’s more. He needs to explain why his solution will help the issue. So we can add to it.
We need to build a wall along the border because the population of terrorists is rising in the United States, and I believe this...