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The thesis is a declarative sentence. It is a clear, specific statement, which states the main point of a the paper, thereby limiting the topic and indicating the researcher’s approach to the topic. For this research paper we will be discussing the difference between the open (implicit) thesis approach, and the closed (explicit) thesis. Open (implicit) thesis: Let’s say you are writing a paper on the relationship between the United States criminal court system and the media. You have read on article related to this topic, but you have not yet begun your research. Still, it is possible for you to arrive at a very basic and general opinion without going into detail, secondary topics, or supporting reasons for your assertion. Broad Topic:  The United States criminal court system and the media. Example of an open (implicit) thesis statement: The media plays too influential a role in criminal court trials. To assist you in formulating your preliminary thesis, ask basic “W” questions that are related to your topic: who, what, when, where, and why? This will help you determine your particular interests and a possible starting point for your research. Based on the topic above, the following list demonstrates the different kinds of questions that can be generated. *Why is the media involved in court cases? *When did the media start reporting court cases? *What is the media’s role in criminal court cases? *What aspects of the media am I going to write about? *What kind of criminal case is it? *When did the case take place? *Where did the case take place? *Who were the people involved in the case? If you are writing a research paper and you have come up with a long list of random questions, select three or four questions that hold the most interest for you. These questions will narrow your focus and help you to plan your research strategy.

Closed (Explicit) Thesis: If you make an assertion and include the reason or reasons which support your assertion, and it is broad enough in scope, yet specific enough to be unified and to perform as a substantial generalization of your essay, you have written a closed thesis statement. The evidence can take many forms: facts, opinions, anecdotes, statistics, analogies, etc., but the essential relationship between the thesis and the major points of support is one of conclusion to reason:   This is believed to be true because… (reasons). Broad Topic:  The United States criminal court system and the media. Example of a closed (explicit) thesis: The media plays a very influential role in criminal court trials because of their access to the people, their bias, and because of the special privileges. Based on the topic that YOU have chosen, ask yourself basic “W” questions that are related to YOUR topic to help you plan your research strategy and form a thesis. (Written by Lisa Tolhurst for the Hunter College Reading/Writing Center, 1998) WHY – WHEN – WHAT – WHERE – WHO – HOW – KEEP GOING!.....

So much is at stake in writing a conclusion. This is, after all, your last chance to persuade your readers to your point of view, to impress yourself upon them as a writer and thinker. And the impression you create in your conclusion will shape the impression that stays with your readers after they've finished the essay.

The end of an essay should therefore convey a sense of completeness and closure as well as a sense of the lingering possibilities of the topic, its larger meaning, its implications: the final paragraph should close the discussion without closing it off.

To establish a sense of closure, you might do one or more of the following:

  • Conclude by linking the last paragraph to the first, perhaps by reiterating a word or phrase you used at the beginning.
  • Conclude with a sentence composed mainly of one-syllable words. Simple language can help create an effect of understated drama.
  • Conclude with a sentence that's compound or parallel in structure; such sentences can establish a sense of balance or order that may feel just right at the end of a complex discussion.

To close the discussion without closing it off, you might do one or more of the following:

  • Conclude with a quotation from or reference to a primary or secondary source, one that amplifies your main point or puts it in a different perspective. A quotation from, say, the novel or poem you're writing about can add texture and specificity to your discussion; a critic or scholar can help confirm or complicate your final point. For example, you might conclude an essay on the idea of home in James Joyce's short story collection,  Dubliners , with information about Joyce's own complex feelings towards Dublin, his home. Or you might end with a biographer's statement about Joyce's attitude toward Dublin, which could illuminate his characters' responses to the city. Just be cautious, especially about using secondary material: make sure that you get the last word.
  • Conclude by setting your discussion into a different, perhaps larger, context. For example, you might end an essay on nineteenth-century muckraking journalism by linking it to a current news magazine program like  60 Minutes .
  • Conclude by redefining one of the key terms of your argument. For example, an essay on Marx's treatment of the conflict between wage labor and capital might begin with Marx's claim that the "capitalist economy is . . . a gigantic enterprise of dehumanization "; the essay might end by suggesting that Marxist analysis is itself dehumanizing because it construes everything in economic -- rather than moral or ethical-- terms.
  • Conclude by considering the implications of your argument (or analysis or discussion). What does your argument imply, or involve, or suggest? For example, an essay on the novel  Ambiguous Adventure , by the Senegalese writer Cheikh Hamidou Kane, might open with the idea that the protagonist's development suggests Kane's belief in the need to integrate Western materialism and Sufi spirituality in modern Senegal. The conclusion might make the new but related point that the novel on the whole suggests that such an integration is (or isn't) possible.

Finally, some advice on how not to end an essay:

  • Don't simply summarize your essay. A brief summary of your argument may be useful, especially if your essay is long--more than ten pages or so. But shorter essays tend not to require a restatement of your main ideas.
  • Avoid phrases like "in conclusion," "to conclude," "in summary," and "to sum up." These phrases can be useful--even welcome--in oral presentations. But readers can see, by the tell-tale compression of the pages, when an essay is about to end. You'll irritate your audience if you belabor the obvious.
  • Resist the urge to apologize. If you've immersed yourself in your subject, you now know a good deal more about it than you can possibly include in a five- or ten- or 20-page essay. As a result, by the time you've finished writing, you may be having some doubts about what you've produced. (And if you haven't immersed yourself in your subject, you may be feeling even more doubtful about your essay as you approach the conclusion.) Repress those doubts. Don't undercut your authority by saying things like, "this is just one approach to the subject; there may be other, better approaches. . ."

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How to Conclude a Thesis Paper

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Writing a thesis paper is like a journey. The path starts with research, passes through idea selection, and winds through writing the introduction and supporting paragraphs. The conclusion is where you tell your readers what you have learned and where you have been. A conclusion should be short -- generally no more than a paragraph.

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  • Restate your thesis statement
  • Summarize the paper
  • Want the reader

1 Restate your thesis statement

Restate your thesis statement. Do not use the same words, but recast the sentence. For example, if your thesis statement is, "America needs a monarchy," in the conclusion, try, "Although the United States' founding fathers rejected it, today's American citizens need a monarchy."

2 Summarize the paper

Summarize the paper by writing at least one sentence about each of the main ideas. In a 500- to 600-word essay, you probably have three main points, so include three summary sentences in your conclusion. Be brief and do not introduce any ideas not explained in the paper.

3 Want the reader

State what you want the reader to do or think. Your goal is to make sure that the reader followed your reasoning to reach the same interpretation.

  • Do not use the terms, "In conclusion," "To conclude," or "The End."
  • Avoid writing in the first person.

About the Author

Susan Brockett worked in the computer industry as a technical writer for nearly 20 years at companies including Motorola and Dell Computer Systems. In addition, her articles have appeared in Society of Technical Communications publications. Brockett has a master's degree in English composition and communications from Kansas State University.

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an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument

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a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree

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This handout covers major topics relating to writing about fiction. This covers prewriting, close reading, thesis development, drafting, and common pitfalls to avoid.

Also see the OWL handout on Writing about Literature and the OWL handout on Literary Terms .

Writing about a story or novel can be difficult because fiction is generally very complex and usually includes several points or themes. To discover these interwoven meanings, you must read the work closely. Below are three techniques for reading fiction actively and critically. Close reading takes more time than quick, superficial reading, but doing a close reading will save you from a lot of frustration and anxiety when you begin to develop your thesis.

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Use these "tracking" methods to yield a richer understanding of the text and lay a solid ground work for your thesis.

Pitfalls: Highlighting too much Highlighting without notes in the margins

These should be questions, comments, dialogue with the text itself.

A paragraph from Doris Lessing's short story "A Woman on a Roof" serves as an example:

The second paragraph could have a note from the reader like this:

Write quickly after your reading: ask questions, attempt answers and make comments about whatever catches your attention. A good question to begin with when writing response entries is "What point does the author seem to be making?"

After close reading and annotating, can you now make a statement about the story's meaning? Is the author commenting on a certain type of person or situation? What is that comment?

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These four common assumptions about writing about fiction interfere with rather than help the writer. Learn to avoid them.

Assumes that the main task is simply recalling what happened in detail. Plot summary is just one of the requirements of writing about fiction, not the intended goal.

Assumes that writing about fiction is a "no win" game in which the student writer is forced to try to guess the RIGHT ANSWER that only the professor knows.

Assumes that ANY interpretation of any literary piece is purely whimsy or personal taste. It ignores the necessity of testing each part of an interpretation against the whole text, as well as the need to validate each idea by reference to specifics from the text or quotations and discussion from the text.

Assumes that writing the paper is only a way of stating the answer rather than an opportunity to explore an idea or explain what your own ideas are and why you have them. This sometimes leads to "padding," repeating the same idea in different words or worse, indiscriminate "expert" quoting: using too many quotes or quotes that are too long with little or no discussion.

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Paraphrasing is restating someone else’s ideas or words in your own words while retaining their meaning. Paraphrasing changes sentence structure, word choice, and sentence length to convey the same meaning.

Rephrasing may involve more substantial changes to the original text, including changing the order of sentences or the overall structure of the text.

Rewording is changing individual words in a text without changing its meaning or structure, often using synonyms.

It can. One of the two methods of paraphrasing is called “Fluency.” This will improve the language and fix grammatical errors in the text you’re paraphrasing.

Paraphrasing and using a paraphrasing tool aren’t cheating. It’s a great tool for saving time and coming up with new ways to express yourself in writing.  However, always be sure to credit your sources. Avoid plagiarism.  

If you don’t properly cite text paraphrased from another source, you’re plagiarizing. If you use someone else’s text and paraphrase it, you need to credit the original source. You can do that by using citations. There are different styles, like APA, MLA, Harvard, and Chicago. Find more information about citing sources here.

Paraphrasing without crediting the original author is a form of plagiarism , because you’re presenting someone else’s ideas as if they were your own.

However, paraphrasing is not plagiarism if you correctly cite the source . This means including an in-text citation and a full reference, formatted according to your required citation style .

As well as citing, make sure that any paraphrased text is completely rewritten in your own words.

Plagiarism means using someone else’s words or ideas and passing them off as your own. Paraphrasing means putting someone else’s ideas in your own words.

So when does paraphrasing count as plagiarism?

  • Paraphrasing is plagiarism if you don’t properly credit the original author.
  • Paraphrasing is plagiarism if your text is too close to the original wording (even if you cite the source). If you directly copy a sentence or phrase, you should quote it instead.
  • Paraphrasing  is not plagiarism if you put the author’s ideas completely in your own words and properly cite the source .

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We’re Going to Be Using “We” a Little Less

I write for a corporation. this is my small rebellion..

When people ask what I do for a living, I tell them I’m a writer. It’s the truth. I have an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and I regularly write both fiction and nonfiction. But like many writers, I cover the bulk of my bills by shilling for a big corporation. Specifically, I craft internal communications for a Fortune 500 insurance company. I’ve worked there for nearly 7 years, and in that time, I’ve come to respect and fear one word more than any other: We.

In the world of creative writing, it’s rare to see work written in the first-person plural.* But in the corporate world, it’s ubiquitous. As anecdotal evidence, I performed a ctrl+F search for We in the 58 pieces I’ve written for work between Jan. 1, 2024, and Feb. 23, 2024—the day I drafted this essay. Including instances of we’ll and we’re , it appeared 134 times. What does this look like in practice? It pains me to show you:

●     We’re hiring and training more adjusters to support our new operating model. ●     We’re excited to share the latest enhancements to our claim reporting technology. ●     This is what happens when we break down silos and innovate together!

We wasn’t part of my onboarding. My manager never told me to use it. But I fell into it naturally. Much like other companies, the one I work for is ditching fussy industry jargon for a more casual tone.

At first, using the word so much didn’t bother me. I enjoyed taking the formal, linguistically tortured drafts colleagues submitted and turning them into clear, brief, and friendly articles. I liked that the company was making an effort to talk to its employees like people rather than hierarchical underlings.

The problem is that a company talking to its employees like people doesn’t always translate to treating its employees like people.

I can’t say my company treats us badly—or at least, that it treats me badly. I have a better salary and benefits than many friends who work in similar fields. But it’s still a publicly traded corporation, beholden to its profit-seeking shareholders. I’ve seen multiple rounds of layoffs during my tenure, and I worry I’ll be next—especially with the rise of artificial intelligence. Why pay a human to write well when you could pay a robot less to write tolerably?

To the company where I work, I am disposable, along with every other employee. But you wouldn’t know that from the company’s We -laden communications—many of which I write. We makes it sound like we’re in this together, when we are decidedly not. We papers over the blatant power differential between the C-suite and the rest of us. We makes us sound like a family unit, and family takes care of each other, right?

Perhaps employees should be smart enough not to buy into the We propaganda. ( We have, after all, seen the egomaniacal meltdown of WeWork .) But even if we know better, what choice do we have? We live in an uncertain world, from pandemics to insurrections to school shootings. Despite the recent resurgence of the labor movement , it seems like the only remaining unshakeable institution is capitalism. A job can provide resources, benefits, a sense of stability, and even community, especially when people are made to feel like they’re part of a team. Until it doesn’t. “This is how we will reignite our growth,” Nike’s CEO said in a memo last month—a memo in which he announced more than 1,500 job cuts.

I’m concerned not only for my fellow employees taken in by the We s that people like me liberally pepper into corporate communications, but also for human beings in general, who are similarly taken in by the copious We s on corporate websites, advertisements, and other marketing materials. “We champion continual progress” on Nike’s site makes it sound like a group of hardworking peers constantly bettering their products. The inclusive pronoun may even make consumers feel like part of that progress through their brand loyalty. But Nike isn’t a collective; it’s a corporation with a history of questionable labor practices that reported $51.2 billion in revenues for the 2023 fiscal year. Its CEO, John “we’ll-reignite-growth-through-layoffs” Donahoe, makes $33 million per year. The average Joe is not part of Nike’s We , no matter what Nike wants the average Joe to think.

There are parts of my job as a corporate communications writer that I genuinely enjoy. I like recognizing employees with a profile piece when they’ve accomplished something big—a technology fix with impressive cost savings, or a special connection made with a customer. It’s fun finding new ways to keep readers engaged, like when I started writing a series of stories about our fraud investigation team in the style of true crime. But most importantly, I value simplifying things for my colleagues. By clearly and concisely presenting the information they need to do their jobs well, I can help make their work less stressful.

The corporate We , however, can serve to obfuscate. Every time I use it, I’m describing a culture of care that doesn’t truly exist. Using a phrase like We heard you! may seem harmless when introducing a change in policy, but it suggests that the company’s motives are employee-driven rather than profit-driven. A cheerful We need your help! implies that the company values your opinion, when in reality it’s asking you to do extra work (unpaid!). We can be effective propaganda packed into a two-letter punch.

So, what’s a stooge like me to do? I don’t want to dupe my colleagues or my larger community, but I do want to buy groceries. I know I can’t singlehandedly take responsibility for or control trends in corporate language. But sharing anticapitalist memes on Instagram isn’t the most effective protest, either.

Until I win the lottery—or until the next round of layoffs—my plan is to use the corporate We a little less. Substituting the company’s name can remind readers of their actual position within a much larger and more powerful institution—one that doesn’t necessarily have their best interests at heart.

Correction, March 12, 2024: This article originally misstated that we is second-person plural.

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Massive explosion in Pittsburgh area home kills man and woman; cause under investigation

Debris remains after a house explosion on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 in Crescent Township, Pa. Allegheny County emergency dispatchers said the blast in Crescent Township in the northwest Pittsburgh suburbs was reported at about 9 a.m. Tuesday. Police, fire and emergency services were dispatched to the scene, dispatchers said. (Tim Robbibaro/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

Debris remains after a house explosion on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 in Crescent Township, Pa. Allegheny County emergency dispatchers said the blast in Crescent Township in the northwest Pittsburgh suburbs was reported at about 9 a.m. Tuesday. Police, fire and emergency services were dispatched to the scene, dispatchers said. (Tim Robbibaro/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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CRESCENT, Pa. (AP) — A massive explosion killed two people and destroyed a house in the Pittsburgh area near the Ohio River, authorities said Tuesday.

Aerial images from the scene in Crescent Township in the northwest Pittsburgh suburbs showed smoking ruins with the structure reduced to rubble and some large pieces lodged in trees above. Allegheny County emergency dispatchers said the blast was reported shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday.

The blast was “severe, absolutely extreme,” and “You could feel it in your chest,” said Chief Andrew Tomer of the Crescent Township fire department. It was heard and felt throughout Crescent and nearby townships and even across the river. Tomer and others at the fire department immediately saw “a column of white smoke up in the air followed by a thick column of black smoke,” he said.

The explosion “completely leveled” the home, with arriving units reporting “fire throughout the foundation” and fire along the hillside, Tomer said. The blast also damaged at least two other homes, he said. A private gas well and two propane tanks on the scene were secured, he said.

A man and woman were found dead at the scene, he said. The county medical examiner’s office will confirm their identities and determine the cause and manner of death.

In this frame grab taken from video provided by WXYZ, firefighters battle an industrial fire in the Detroit suburb of Clinton Township, late Monday, March 4, 2024. (Courtesy of WXYZ via AP)

The cause of the explosion is under investigation by the Allegheny County fire marshal’s office and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The county’s emergency services department said the scene “is in a remote location and we’re asking everyone to avoid the area in order to allow responders access.”

On Aug. 12, a blast in the borough of Plum about 25 miles (40 kilometers) away in the same county killed six people and destroyed three homes. Authorities said the cause was under investigation, but the explosion occurred inside one of the homes, ruling out an outside cause including wells, pipelines and other utilities.

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