Thesis statement Archives - Enhancing Postgraduate Environments https://postgradenvironments.com/tag/thesis-statement/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 09:06:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://postgradenvironments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/favicon.png Thesis statement Archives - Enhancing Postgraduate Environments https://postgradenvironments.com/tag/thesis-statement/ 32 32 Thesis Statement https://postgradenvironments.com/2018/08/06/thesis-statement/ Mon, 06 Aug 2018 10:12:08 +0000 http://postgradenvironments.com/?p=908 Every thesis has to make a contribution at the boundaries of the field. Can you state in just a sentence what the contribution of your study is?

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]]> Every thesis has to make a contribution – it has to have a central argument that it offers to the field of study. It is often difficult to figure out what your exact thesis statement is but once you do so, you can get a clear sense of what smaller arguments will need to be built up through chains of evidence in order for the reader to be convinced of the thesis statement. This video uses an example from Education and so it will probably be of use to students from across the Humanities and Social Sciences. For those in the Natural Sciences, the building of an argument is generally (but not always) in a more linear fashion. But regardless of your field, you will have to make some contribution to the field and it is worth trying to sum this up in just one clearly constructed sentence.

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This video would make a useful resource for a writing workshop. It is primarily aimed at the kinds of argument building and thesis statement construction found in the Humanities and Social Sciences – but it might help those in the Natural Sciences too to construct in just one clearly crafted sentence what it is that their study offers the field.

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