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The UVic writer’s guide: Planning, Organizing and Presenting Essays

This section has a useful sub-section: Writing your essay: Getting started. It gives tips on how to narrow down the topic and write a thesis statement. It also gives examples of good and bad examples of a thesis.

Using thesis statements

A short article that clarifies the role of the thesis statement, and dispels some myths about them. It also looks at characteristics of good and poor thesis statements.

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