A thesis statement is a sentence that tells the reader exactly what the paper is going to be about. It can be used argumentatively in order to clearly depict the writers viewpoints and opinions on the subject of the paper. The thesis’ main purpose is to organize the key points that will be used as an overall subject for each body paragraph. The thesis creates a central idea that the writing piece is trying to explain. For argument papers, the thesis statement forms the reader’s claim which is proven by the end of the paper with supporting details and evidence from credible experts. A strong claim can be broken up into separate sentences that will become topic sentences for each body paragraph. These topic sentences will be the focus points