Thesis Statement Review

Thesis Statement Review

Multiple Choice

A thesis statement should have a subject, topic, and three supporting reasons.

• True

• False

A thesis statement should begin with the subject. For this paper the subject is either:

• Social Media, Handheld Games, Video Games

• Meditation, Yoga, Journaling

• The project you created.

The topic is student stress. So your thesis should begin like any of the following :

• Video Games are not a cause of student stress because

• Journaling is helpful to alleviate stress because

• Social media is a cause of student stress because

Three reasons

You need to use your research to determine why the first part of your claim is true.

For example:

Videogames are a cause of student stress because they raise dopamine levels, interrupt sleep patterns, and can cause addictive behavior.

Multiple Choice

Lets look at the following statement:

Social media does not contribute to student stress because social media relieves stress you use it to connect with your friends when your not able to see them, it also does not contribute to most stress of students homework and other school related activities bring stress, finally social media is used to find funny videos etc. to share with friends and laugh at, not stress over them like its homework.

Which of the following could help fix this thesis?

• Pick only one topic

• Make the thesis statement one sentence

• Shorten the reasons provided

• all of the above

Multiple Select

How is this thesis statement best rewritten?

Social media does not contribute to student stress because social media relieves stress you use it to connect with your friends when your not able to see them, it also does not contribute to most stress of students homework and other school related activities bring stress, finally social media is used to find funny videos etc. to share with friends and laugh at, not stress over them like its homework.

• Social media does not contribute to student stress because you use it to connect with friends, find funny videos, and not stress.

• Social media does not contribute to student stress because it provides a social outlet, can provide humor, and (still needs 3rd reason).

• I can't rewrite this thesis because the reasons are not backed up by research.

All of your reasons need to be backed up by facts and statistics or expert testimony.

• Provides social interaction (great reason!)

• Provides humor (no studies support this.)

• Provide down time to escape from school work (Research is possible here.)

Multiple Choice

How is this thesis statement best rewritten?

Video games does contribute to student stress because it distracts them, it can make them mad, and it can also make them lazy.

• Video games contribute to student stress because they are distracting, anger inducing, and promote inactivity.

• Video games contribute to student stress because it makes students distracted, mad, and lazy

• Video games contribute to student stress because they are already distracted, mad and lazy at school.

Let's remember:

• Thesis statements are ONE sentence.

• They consist of a subject, topic and three reasons.

• The reasons must be backed up by research and not based on personal experience.

• You can do this!!!!!