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Lumen: Critical Reading: Identifying Thesis Statements
This lesson plan focuses on identifying thesis statements including explicit and implicit thesis statements, "How to Identify the Thesis Statement" (video), topic sentences, paragraph parts graphic, and a self-check activity.
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Blendspace: Writing Thesis Statements Effectively
A twelve-part learning module with links to texts and websites to use while learning how to write a strong and effective thesis statement.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Establishing a Purpose and a Thesis
This instructional activity focuses on establishing the purpose and thesis of your speech. It includes information about both a general and specific purpose of the speech and developing a thesis statement that clearly articulates the...
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Lumen: Critical Reading: Summary Skills
This lesson focuses on how to write a summary including strategies for annotation, paraphrasing the thesis statement, distinguishing major ideas from minor ones, and picking appropriate quotes. It also provides videos including "How to...
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Lumen: Writing Process: Prewriting
This lesson focuses on prewriting including the purpose and characteristics of prewriting, prewriting strategies, the rhetorical context, and developing a working thesis statement. It also includes a slide show about author, audience,...