thesis statement

Examples of thesis statement in the following topics:

• Defining the Thesis

  • Your thesis statement should clearly articulate the purpose and main points of your speech.
  • Your thesis statement should clearly articulate the purpose and main points of your speech.
  • Think of the thesis as the rocket that will guide the spaceship, that is your speech .
  • It should be a declarative statement, stating what position you will argue.
  • It's also particularly helpful to give a quick outline of just how you plan to achieve those goals in another few sentences, immediately following your thesis statement.

• Developing Your Thesis

  • All speeches must have a point or a main argument – a thesis.
  • You take the position that the egg came first as your thesis statement.
  • In any opinion piece, written or spoken, the main argument – the thesis statement – comes at the beginning.
  • It is important to remember that your thesis statement only addresses one main issue; the ways in which you choose to support your thesis add complexity and depth to your speech.
  • When composing your thesis statement, consider and answer the following questions:

• Supporting Your Ideas

  • Use a variety of ways to support the ideas and claims that you make with your thesis statement to give your speech depth and dynamics.
  • Once you have solidified your position in your thesis statement, you want to back up your thesis with a variety of supporting ideas and examples.
  • As you notice commonalties between audience members, the audience and your topic, and you and your audience, appeal to those commonalities to not only establish rapport but also to more easily persuade them to your thesis and claims.
  • You might have a particularly complex subject or thesis.

• Introducing the Topic, Thesis, and Main Points

  • Provide an overview of your topic, thesis, and main points early on to show your listeners why they should be interested in your speech.
  • Public speakers should introduce a topic and state a thesis (or purpose) as soon as possible.
  • Make your initial thesis statement (or the statement of purpose in an informative speech) short and sweet.
  • Remember: the thesis statement should summarize your argument in one to three sentences.
  • Identify your topic, thesis, and main points early in your speech

• The Role of the Conclusion

  • Make sure that you reiterate the thesis statement from your introduction, highlight the most important points from your speech, and then relate the concepts of the speech back to reality so your audience can see how it is applicable to their world.

• Extemporaneous Speeches

  • Thesis statement: E-mail and internet monitoring is an invasion of employees' rights

• Organizing and Outlining the Speech

  • Arrange your speech – your thesis, additional points, and supporting evidence – in a way that will make sense to your audience.
  • Think of your thesis like a machine.
  • Sometimes it is helpful to break up your thesis into each of these smaller parts, to make the information more easily digestible for your audience.
  • Building on the idea of your thesis as machine, you may present your overall, broad idea, then break it down into smaller, logical steps to reach that big idea.
  • Introduction and Thesis: Brief description of issues that arise when reading "Hamlet"

• General Purpose

  • Examine the general purpose of why you're speaking; every idea in your speech should connect to that purpose to reinforce your thesis.
  • As the speaker begins to refine the thesis and create supporting arguments, the pyramid gets narrower and narrower as he or she drives the point home.
  • As he or she further hones the purpose and thesis, the speech might trickle down into instruction about why it is important to specify one's privacy settings.
  • Whatever the purpose of the speech, before diving into the specifics of the thesis, the speaker must make sure to take a step back to examine the broad, general purpose of why he or she is speaking.
  • The widest part is the topic; as the speaker refines and hones his or her purpose into a thesis and supporting arguments, he or she narrows the speech down.

• Additional Notes on Preparing and Delivering Impromptu Speeches

  • Apply the structure and think about your main points and thesis.
  • List two or three main ideas for the body, develop the introduction by creating an opener, and present your conclusion with a summary and a reference to the opening statement from the introduction.
  • Use summaries and transitions—make sure to summarize and show connections between ideas; at the end, bring the message to closure with a summary statement.

• Overall Psychology of Your Audience: Values, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Needs

  • "Equal rights for all", "Excellence deserves admiration", and "People should be treated with respect and dignity" are statements of values.
  • If the speaker knows the audience's attitude toward the topic or thesis before the speech, he or she can make sure to address these attitudes during the speech preparation.
  • Some ways to find out the audience's attitude beforehand include rating scales or direct statements from audience members.