Throughout a student’s academic career they will find that they will be expected to write an essay and be able to effectively back up their claims; a feat many students struggle with. However, there is an extremely important section of an academic essay which helps to structure the entire essay and is used to state and back up a claim, called a thesis statement. When writing a thesis statement there are two main characteristics that the sentence must adhere to; it must be debatable and the topic must be narrowed down.
As stated in OWL’s article, “Developing Strong Thesis Statements”, in an argumentative essay, all thesis statements must be debatable as this is the base of your argument. For example, if I were to create an essay, taking content from (Anzaluda)I would have to find a topic that is debatable to write about. My thesis cannot simply
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Secondly, a thesis statement’s topic of choice must be narrowed down. If a thesis statement is too broad it leaves more room for an argument to be rejected by the reader or even make the reader only have questions instead of the answers you want to give; not to mention the essay would have to cover multiple different topics, making it that more difficult to write. For an example, if I were to write, “Racism brings down societies as a whole” the thesis statement would be too broad. A broad thesis statement such as that leaves readers wondering “how?” and “what is considered as racism” according to the paper. Instead a proper thesis statement should have both qualities such this thesis statement: “In order to for racism to truly disappear from our society we must first get rid of all dividers between the races and