Re: Thesis Statements

[Libby Miles <emc@omni.cc.purdue.edu>]

This same technique works well for showing a range of
over-arching (albeit modes-based) organizational strategies:
narrative/chronological, comparison & contrast, description,
etc.

Students easily see how the videos use some sort of organizational
framework, and they try some of them on their own papers.

Libby

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Valerie Balester wrote:

> Some of our GATs show MTV videos (songs with a narrative line work well)
> and ask students to come up with a "main point" of the song.  Students
> catch on quickly, and then are asked to consider this the songwriter's
> thesis.  From there they identify theses statements in ads, TV shows, other
> songs, and readings from their reader.
> 
> Valerie M. Balester
> Director of Writing Programs
> Department of English
> Texas A & M University
> College Station, TX 77843-4227
> 
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