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Developing a Thesis Statement Self Check - Text Only


Read each sample thesis statements below and determine if the statement is Excellent or Needs Improvement.

  1. In order to persuade colonists to fight British dominion, Thomas Paine effectively employs appeals to logic and emotion in his pamphlet “The Crisis” and subsequently secured freedom for future Americans.

  2. Ambrose Bierce wrote “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” about the Civil War.

  3. The naturalist ideas present in The Jungle serve not only to show the bleak, realistic life of the working poor but also to effect social reform on a profound scale.

  4. Dialect and humor are evident in Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

  5. This paper will prove that Emily Dickinson’s life was lonely and sad, then it will show how that sad and lonely life affected her, and how that made her write poetry that is often sad but not always.


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