Can anyone help me with my thesis paper? My professor wrote this on my rought draft?

Question

Here is where the problems are. You are attempting to write a literature review, which is not correct. The purpose of a thesis is to use research to back up your own thoughts and ideas about a topic. Here, you are just discussing someone else’s work.

Answer 1

In short, one of the easiest ways to formulate a thesis is to begin by asking a question about your topic (it also often helps to *hone* your topic or to make your topic more specific before you move forward). Your answer to the question is basically your thesis; you then need to proceed (in your paper/essay) to explain, to "flesh-out" and /or to *prove* your thesis.

For example, let's say that your general topic is dogs. Next, let's hone this topic to make it a bit less broad (more specific). Let's say that your new, more specific (honed) topic is "puzzling behavior of domestic dogs."

Now that you have a more specific topic, formulate your question in regard to this revised topic. An example of such a question might be: "Why do most dogs circle around their spot before they lie down?" Now, do a bit of research and come up with your best theory (i.e., *your* answer to the question), and sum it up: i.e., "Dogs circle around their spot before they lie down because they fear snakes." Viola -- there's your thesis statement! Now you need to set about explaining and *proving* your thesis.

You can apply the same general formula to a literary work. Begin with a question in regard to the story and/or to a character or characters; hone your question, if necessary (if it's too broad, vague or general); formulate *your* answer, theory or response to the question (your thesis). Then you need to provide detailed *analysis* to explain and to prove your theory/analysis. Be sure to use concrete details from the text to bolster your analysis.

Answer 2

The point of a thesis is to come up with a belief/view/theory and then research the topic and site sources in the form of an essay to support your conclusion. Sounds to me like, instead, you just read a book and wrote what you personally thought of it.

Try these:

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~martins/sen_sem/thesis_org.html

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/thesis.html

http://www.charleslipson.com/How-to-write-a-thesis.htm

http://www.tailoredessays.com/how-write/research-paper/thesis-statement.htm

pinkgal 30, you're thinking of a Thesis Statement.

Answer 3

Basically your professor feels that you are simply using literature to back up assertions that have already been made. The point of a thesis is to come up with a unique hypothesis (one which has not been presented before). You then use research to prove your hypothesis.

If you use research to back up an assertion that has already been made, you are simply writing a review or analysis of someone else's existing work; in a thesis paper, you are expected to make your own unique assertions and back them up with research to form a cohesive argument

Answer 4

She is making an attempt to allow you to recognize that as a change of doing a 'e book record' style of paper, she needs you to make an opinionated truth about regardless of it really is you're writing about. it type of feels you've study a e book and ought to write a paper on it. you should locate something interior the e book that you may have an opinion on and communicate about. Like as an party your tale is about a boy who's continuously in hassle at school.... as you study the e book you experience that his hassle is college is a right away results of the bullying, teasing and abuse he receives from his step-brother (it is your truth), then you truly bypass on to help that truth with examples of circumstances from the e book. end with a end that poses a question to the reader to question their own opinion of the concern. Thesis: Poe's Gothic narrators ultimately develop into insane because they couldn't distinguish between attractiveness and rot. subject matter: Poe's Gothic narrators... statement: ...ultimately develop into insane because they couldn't distinguish between attractiveness and rot. A thesis truth isn't: a question : Is the death penalty a superb mirrored image of our society's ideology? a itemizing: own fulfillment effects from human beings skills, exertions, and staying power. A obscure/obtrusive statement: maximum individuals would opt for to be at liberty. A basically opinionated/combative statement: basically someone with a killer mentality will be hostile to stem cellular analyze. in many circumstances, a thesis truth looks on the initiating or end of the first paragraph of an essay so readers would have a sparkling theory of what to anticipate as they study. As you write and revise your paper, that's o.k. to regulate your thesis truth — each and every now and then you do not hit upon what you truly opt for to say about a subject matter until eventually you've complete writing. basically confirm that your very last thesis truth appropriately shows what is going to happen on your paper.

Answer 5

Your thesis is going to be the main statement of your paper; the main point. You have to come up with one main idea for your paper, and use other papers to support your idea.

The other papers are just to be used as examples to lend support to your overall idea.

Answer 6

a thesis is like something that tells what your paper is going to be about!

hope this helps!!