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English 11

Wednesday, March 20, 13

thesis statements
• UNC Thesis Statement Handout • Clarity • Specificity • Argumentative - states a position or interpretation, not fact • Sophistication • Significance
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Writing an Effective Thesis

Hacker/Sommers, A Writer’s Reference, 7th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2011)
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Writing an Effective Thesis

Hacker/Sommers, A Writer’s Reference, 7th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2011)
Wednesday, March 20, 13

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Writing an Effective Thesis

Hacker/Sommers, A Writer’s Reference, 7th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2011)
Wednesday, March 20, 13

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Writing an Effective Thesis

Hacker/Sommers, A Writer’s Reference, 7th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2011)
Wednesday, March 20, 13

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Writing an Effective Thesis

Hacker/Sommers, A Writer’s Reference, 7th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2011)
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Some online practice..... http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/writersref7e/ In Tim O'Brien's Vietnam novel The Things They Carried, the main character is named Tim O'Brien, but the author claims that the work is fictional. In Tim O'Brien's Vietnam novel The Things They Carried, in which the main character is also named Tim O'Brien, the author deliberately blurs the line between autobiography and fiction. In Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray presents readers with a heroine whose ambition and disregard for the morals of the nineteenth century make her seem more like a woman of our time than of her own. In Thackeray’s nineteenth-century novel Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp is an impoverished young woman who plots deviously to get money and status in her society.
Hacker/Sommers, A Writer’s Reference, 7th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 2011)
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Clint Eastwood's film Unforgiven critiques the kind of strong, silent, macho