Writing and editing advice from www.goodtermpaper.com
Evidence is one of the most important parts of your paper. What is evidence? That is the anecdotes, stories, statistics, quotes, history and interpretations that all, in some way, add to your growing and compelling case that you are right about your topic (or left, if you like). Although they come in varied forms, they maintain a thematic coherence by being related to each other. As your paper’s author, it is your job to ’set’ the thematic coherance and all relationship aspects between a group of elements. These elements may appear loose, disjointed on a mere surface examination, however- they are the elements that you chose for your paper, so they better have something to do with one another!
You are the codemaster for your project. Think of your thesis statement as a safe, as in, something to keep valuables. Then, in turn, think of a safe as a filter, because that is really what it is, isn’t it? A safe ‘filters’ out access from those individuals who know the code on the lock. If they know the code, and can physically maneuver the mechanism, then they get to access. If they don’t, then they are kept out. Similarly, your thesis statement is a filtering mechanism for your evidence. You can’t just let any piece of information have access to and become part of your paper, because that would look chaotic! Instead, you must carefully allow access to only those bits of information that make your case stronger. And the way you decide this is by running every piece of information you come across past your thesis statement to see if they agree with one another.
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