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1、-精选财经经济类资料- -最新财经经济资料-感谢阅读- 1 TIPS FOR WRITING A THESIS 论文写作要点TIPS FOR WRITING A THESIS ?1.Determine what kind of paper you are writing:* An ANALYTICAL paper breaks down an issue or an idea into its component parts, evaluates the issue or idea, and presents this breakdown and evaluation to the audie
2、nce.* An EXPOSITORY paper -精选财经经济类资料- -最新财经经济资料-感谢阅读- 2 explains something to the audience.* An ARGUMENTATIVE paper makes a claim about a topic and justifies this claim with specific evidence. The claim could be an opinion, a policy proposal, an evaluation, a cause-and-effect statement, or an interp
3、retation. The goal of the argumentative paper is to convince the audience that the claim is true based on the evidence provided.If you are writing a text which does not fall under these three categories , a thesis statement somewhere in the first paragraph could still be helpful to your reader.2. Yo
4、ur thesis statement should be specificit should cover only what you will discuss in your paper and should be supported with specific evidence.3. The thesis statement usually appears at the end of the first paragraph of a paper.-精选财经经济类资料- -最新财经经济资料-感谢阅读- 3 4. Your topic may change as you write, so y
5、ou may need to revise your thesis statement to reflect exactly what you have discussed in the paper.Thesis Statement ExamplesExample of an analytical thesis statement:An analysis of the university admission process reveals one challenge facing counsellors: accepting students with high test scores or
6、 students with strong extracurricular backgrounds.The paper that follows should:* explain the analysis of the uni admission process * explain the challenge facing admissions counsellors 文章历史打 印请求成为作者 Tips and Examples for Writing Thesis Statements Tips for Writing Your Thesis StatementExample of an
7、expository thesis statement:The life of the typical uni student is -精选财经经济类资料- -最新财经经济资料-感谢阅读- 4 characterized by time spent studying, attending class, and socializing with peers.The paper that follows should:* explain how students spend their time studying, attending class, and socializing with pee
8、rsExample of an argumentative thesis statement:High school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering university in order to increase their maturity and global awareness.The paper that follows should:* present an argument and give evidence to
9、 support the claim that students should pursue community projects before entering college.More tips from By Italki member Nanren888Avoid 1st person, in the text, the passive is a good way round it. It seems -精选财经经济类资料- -最新财经经济资料-感谢阅读- 5 maybe less important than it once was. Is your audience progres
10、sive or traditional? The safe approach is to avoid the 1st person, by wording things differently. I suspect that using “we” is more common in the abstract. Usually there is a way to reword. I scan the abstracts from the last conference “We use a broadband variant “ “Wide band acoustic signals are em
11、ployed” . “This paper compares the performance of “. “We describe recent developments in modem-based”. single author paper “This paper presents a quantitative analysis”. “We will provide an in-depth look”.In the text “Here we consider only our worst case with the low SNR type D”. Worded to include t
12、hereader? “To identify the featureless classifier to use, we consider how other applications with similar issues”. -精选财经经济类资料- -最新财经经济资料-感谢阅读- 6 It seems they make “we” more acceptable by not starting with it? “Once features are detected, they can be described” HINTS FOR WRITING A LITERARY CRITICAL ANALYSISIf
