Today, we are given the responsibility to write a thesis statement for our essay. Our research is well underway, and it is time to start organizing our thoughts to prepare for the draft that is due next week! (Yikes!) This exercise is once again from page 158 of The Curious Researcher, by Bruce Ballenger. From this page, Ballenger has given his readers several ideas for a thesis from different perspectives. These five perspectives are as follows: Question of Value, Question of Policy, Questioin of Interpretation, an Hypothesis Question, and a Relationship Question. For this project, I have chosen to write my essay from the Hypothesis Question Perspective. Considering that my topic is about how social media can affect a family as a whole, here is tentative thesis that I am going to be using for my essay.
Based on my research, I am able to conclude that social media can have a major affect psychologically on a family due to the amount of time that the family spends on social media rather than with each other.
I can't wait to work on this essay and to see how all my research can be put together into an essay form that I hope you will want to read!
I wonder if your thesis would be more effective if you described the affect social media has on the family. In other words, is the "major affect" negative, positive, or neutral? What do you think?
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a good idea. Maybe it would be better if my thesis said: Based on my research, I am able to conclude that despite the excitement of social media, there are many negative psychological affects it can have on the user and their family because of the amount of time spent on social media rather than with one another. I know that is a bit of a run on. If I were able to split it up into two sentences that would definitely work better. Overall, though, does my second thesis get my point across a little bit more?
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