Thesis Statement Essay

Self Assignment Throughout the entire semester of Paideia, I have grown as a writer by improving and creating a compelling thesis statement. My fist thesis statement this semester was “By these pursuits education and empathy through the Golden Rule, we are capable of developing as humans”. This thesis statement is not compelling. I just summarized what the body paragraphs would be about and how it connected to the writing prompt. Professor Vazquez’s biggest critique on this paper was to create a stronger, more compelling, and debatable thesis statement. She also said to make my thesis not only about the book we are writing about. Over the semester my goal was to work on my thesis statements. For my second essay this semester my thesis statement was “if he …show more content…
If you can answer all three of these questions in your introduction paragraph you will grasp your reader’s attention. I think that I accomplished this because I answered all of these questions. Over the course of the semester I have improved my introduction paragraphs by making the sentences shorter and stronger. From the first essay I wrote my introduction was more of a summary of the book and by the end of this semester I have learned to summarize just enough to inform the reader which answers all three of these questions. “In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, written by himself, we have learned through his experiences that he disputed the ideas of slavery. Douglass provided evidence on how their slaveholders dehumanized him and thousands of other black slaves. He was whipped, starved, and uneducated. Since one can be less human; can she or he be more human”? These sentences give the readers a description of the book but also what this paper is about, it also hints at what the reader can do in the future about