Imperative Vs Informative Paper

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As I am from Nepal and my native language is Nepali. We follow both British and American English system in Nepal. There is a slight difference between these two English systems (like a definition of a zombie and a vampire, which are similar but has a slight difference) which leads contradiction while writing a paper. As English is a foreign language we have different method of writing. We generally follow, informative writing rather than argumentative. I have trouble in differentiating controlling thesis of well informative paper and an argumentative paper, which covers the argumentative idea and informative idea. For instance a zombie remains under the control of the bokor as a personal slave, having no will of its own (Renee, May 4 2015)
. A paper also remains under the control of a controlling thesis, which is the outline of an essay and decide the paper to be informative or argumentative. Generally, I have a problem to find and use
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People use facts and details (informative) to write a paper they do not create an informative controlling thesis on informative paper, which is the main part of an essay to provide evidence on a specific topic. As a result a paper lacks supporting central idea in a paragraph and cannot interlink between paragraphs. As zombie cannot balance themselves on their two legs and move here and there. There is fluctuation in my writing and cannot write within a boundary of controlling thesis. I have trouble with being specific on a paragraph and could not provide supporting idea on the same paragraph. While writing argumentative paper, paper becomes informative because of lack of argumentative controlling thesis. It is hard to me to find a controlling thesis easily.so it has kept me behind bars and shackled from a perfectly free writing

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