A few weeks ago, I wrote about how themes were incredibly confusing to identify. I have found a superior mystery.The thesis. As I said in a previous post, themes are difficult because there's just so many of them. However, there's only one (maybe two) that could really be called the main theme. Anyways, I'm getting myself distracted. The reason why thesis..es or theses, I don't know which one it is, is because they require actual writing. It's not like a theme, where you can read the story, think, and come up with at least one. Oh no, you generally have to read a story, think, and write something decent and preferably intelligent. That last bit is the most difficult. As we went over it in class, Mr. Mullins told us that theses didn't have magic formulas. Unfortunate. For a math and science nerd to be told that, it's kind of depressing. However, to make up for that, I've tried to look up online how to write a better thesis. There are 3 main types of essays that require a thesis expository, analytical, and argumentative. They're all nonfiction, so if you're ever writing a fictional story, good news, you don't need a thesis. Basically I think, if a thesis ends up being a simple sentence, it's probably wrong or as IU calls it "weak".
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/thesis_statement.shtml
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/545/1/
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