With these factors in mind, it is apparent that teachers should provide students with a thesis rather than allow them to produce their own. While some students can effortlessly develop theses despite the lack of specific guidelines, a sizeable portion of students find this task to be insurmountable. When students are given a broad range of choices, it becomes difficult to assess which is the best thesis to use. It is as if they are in electroshock therapy, where selecting the wrong choice results in a punishment. This often results in students who are particularly indecisive or have no overwhelming passions spending ridiculous amounts of time in order to decide on an appropriate thesis. As the student cannot easily produce a thesis, and the thesis is the foundation of the following paragraphs, it becomes virtually impossible to make progress on the essay, resulting in a classic catch 22. An example of this situation was during an English class in the eleventh grade. We had been
With these factors in mind, it is apparent that teachers should provide students with a thesis rather than allow them to produce their own. While some students can effortlessly develop theses despite the lack of specific guidelines, a sizeable portion of students find this task to be insurmountable. When students are given a broad range of choices, it becomes difficult to assess which is the best thesis to use. It is as if they are in electroshock therapy, where selecting the wrong choice results in a punishment. This often results in students who are particularly indecisive or have no overwhelming passions spending ridiculous amounts of time in order to decide on an appropriate thesis. As the student cannot easily produce a thesis, and the thesis is the foundation of the following paragraphs, it becomes virtually impossible to make progress on the essay, resulting in a classic catch 22. An example of this situation was during an English class in the eleventh grade. We had been