Thesis Statement Analysis

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During my time in this class I found that my skills as a writer were getting better with each essay. While conducting my research for the third essay, the research-supported cause/effect essay, I found that I may have had too much information. At first I struggled with the thesis statement, as I couldn’t decide which direction to take on my topic, aerial archeology. Narrowing results and finding the ideal way to proceed I found a good thesis statement and began to use the research and knowledge of the subject to form my essay. I could not be more pleased with how the essay turned out, and now understand just how important a good topic and thesis statement are to a good essay.

While deciding on a topic I was torn. I was unsure if I should stick with a safe …show more content…

I had begun to free write a good bit and thought I had a solid thesis statement. I found out that after reading the articles, journals, and listening to Ted Talks, that my thesis statement was totally wrong. The original would not only be a terrible way to start, but would lead the reader to believe I was going to be talking about something totally different throughout the essay. My thesis statement changed five times before I finally was happy with what I had. I truly believe that the most important part of this essay was the research portion. I thought that I knew enough about the topic of aerial imagery, satellite usage, and archeology that I would have no issue in completing the assignment in short order. After finding that imaging being used today can actually detect what type of object lay buried under the ground, I was taken aback. I have continued in the research portion even though the essay is complete. The advances that have been made in the last 25 years has affected not only how we conduct archeological digs, but has helped create a new resurgence in archeology all

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