I need help writing a thesis statement?

Question

What I need to write about is Spelman and CAU (Clark Atlanta University) basically everything about both schools and its just for an introduction. For people who dont know what a thesis statement is it is a strong statement that you can prove with evidence. It is not a simple statement of fact.

Answer 1

If it is a comparison contrast, start off with who is sports heavy and educational or who offers the best social development vs stagnant...

Answer 2

Your message above is a fair beginning to a thesis statement. The thesis statement in itself is declarative in nature (though you can use the interrogative voice) and at times can be the imperative voice (as if to issue a missive).

My question is with the breadth you are attempting.

To wit: "basically everything about both schools and its [sic] just for an introduction.

Can you place "everything" into "just" an "introduction?"

What I am saying is, try to focus it; pick out points of interest regarding both schools and then declare some characteristics about them -- either common or distinctive -- that the reader may find of interest as well. You are just as much a member of the audience to which you are writing as any other person sitting out there listening to you or in this case, reading your paper.

Thus if you get too caught up in the mentalizing of it, offset that by the use of a sense of humor -- that way even if you do not intend the paper to be a comical piece, humor does tend to open you up and allows your mental apparatus to kick in naturally.

In truth, virtually any quality of emotions can be a considerably good raw fuel to drive the thesis and body of the paper throughout and on to the finish line, wherein the paper has taken on arms and legs and a mind all its own -- and all you do is let your fingers do the typing... See?

The paper in turn may take on a signature style of its own that expresses in the form of satire -- something on the order of the "wise-guy" poking fun at it all, see?

Don't get too caught up in the academic side of it. Unless you are doing a paper in a linguistics, philology or a philosophy class, or any heavily concentrating dialectic, you should not constrain yourself too heavily to the priggish aspects of the paper...

For this dares to bore the reader: nothing is so guaranteed to yield for you the writer a mediocre evaluation as to be boring.

[ Just be careful about your punctuation, syntax, and grammar: you have some up above ]

Answer 3

What you need to do is write a draft or two of your statement, reread it a few times, edit it, and then submit it for help.