Thanksgiving Extra Credit

I was thinking about what the most important thing I have learned so far was, and I have learned so much all around it was hard for me to pinpoint one thing. Then I found at an old book report that I had written last year and I read it over, and I found that my thesis really sucked, so my whole paper was actually pretty bad. I think that’s the most important thing I have learned so far, write a good thesis. Before this class, if a teacher asked me to write a thesis statement on something I would have no idea what it meant, to me it was "thesis = topic sentence?" which I guess isn’t that bad, but I have learned just how much more than a topic sentence a thesis is. Your thesis sets you up for you whole paper, so if your thesis is weak, then no matter how hard you try on the rest of your paper, it’s definitely not going to be as good as it could be. Although it still is really hard for me to write a good thesis, I now know what a good one looks like, and what a bad one looks like. I also know that thesis’s aren’t going to go away, probably going to need to write one in every paper I write from here on forever, so it’s going to be a good skill to have and I am really glad we are working on them now.