What was the most important idea that you took away from the reading in the title of the post? Why did you find it important and how did it shift your perspective on writing a thesis? Your response should be at least three sentences long.
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The most important idea that I took away from reading this was definitely the stasis theory, because it goes hand in hand in how you want to present your argument. You shouldn’t just write because your professor told you to and only direct it to your professor you need to have a broader mind that way the essay talks to more than just the professor, it talks to an audience. I find myself doing this in some papers I write because to me, the professor wants to hear what he wants to hear and talk about, but this research paper is different because it is a broad topic.
I totally agree with what Maylene Baez said. That one shouldn’t just write for the sake of the professor or just for the grade but should write for a broader audience. Moreover, I’ve also found that your thesis question and thesis statement should go hand to hand. Meaning, if one is broad, then the other should be broad as well and vice versa.
I agree with maylene because when people tend to write essays they seem to have a bit more complex vocabulary to make them sound educated, this makes the essay increasingly difficult to understand since there isn’t much clarity in the text. furthermore, the writer should base the topic more to the audience rather than satisfying the professor.
The most important idea that took me away from reading in the title of the post is that when Lisa Blankenship said “the best is done for a reason that feels real and relevant to you”. I found it important because if you’re just doing a essay just to get over it, the readers can tell that it was rushed and the essay can be boring instead. It shifted my perspective on writing a thesis by exploring my research and questioning more about the topic.
I agree with what everyone has said so far. I feel as though we should take more pride in our essays because it reflects who we are as a student. Writing is a way to develope how to appeal to different audiences. However we should write with passion regardless of what were talking about and to please anyone but ourselves.
The stasis theory stood out to me the most because I feel like I don’t think about the best way I could approach a topic and convey it to a certain audience and end up talking too broadly about the topic. The methods that the passage provided using the stasis theory, seems quite helpful. For example, the passage keeps stating to think writing as if you’re writing for the world to see rather than your professor. In way it’s also saying to identify yourself within your writing because the things you are taught and the way you are taught is reflected in your writing.
This reading showed me how writing our research paper shouldn’t just be seen as an assignment, but a way how we will learn about the situations occurring in the world. We can develop our thesis by seeing our argument in different perspectives and its roots. This reading also tells us the different types of thesis’ we can use. One of the claims thesis’ examples I liked was the claim of fact. This interests me because I, as a reader, like to know that what I’m about to read is going to be relevant and answer my doubts and questions.