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Response Question: Thesis Statement
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 3,680 Comments
In the section of Neman’s book, Understanding Expository Structure, she thoroughly explains what an arguable statement is and exactly how to arrive at one. She gives the readers ways to prove that it is important and different strategies to formulating them such as the five “strategies for formulating the arguable statement.” Neman puts a lot of stress on the importance of our students grasping and correctly formulating these statements. How do we as future teachers of writing respond to a student’s arguable thesis statement that might not be correct after a student has worked hard to understand and formulate what they perceive as a good thesis statement?