The Simple Guide to Thesis Statements and Support

By Patricia Martin

Getting ready to write an essay?  Headed back to school and overwhelmed by projects and research papers?  Want to help your teenager with a school essay but feel lost about giving advice?  Have a local or state issue that you need to write a legislature about but are unsure of how to structure your thoughts?

The Simple Guide to Thesis Statements and Support is a thorough guide for anyone getting ready to write.  Returning to school?  Helping a student?  Wanting to write a letter, an essay, or an article?  This is your resource.  The book is written in an easy-to-understand manner so that anyone can read it and use the techniques to start writing today.

Learn how to:

• Write a thesis without doing any research
• Write a thesis that concludes a research project
• How to respond to a writing prompt
• Write five different styles of thesis statements
• Understand the writing expectations of everything from short answers to research papers
• Write in different styles: expository, persuasive, narrative, compare or contrast, research, and professional and business writing
• Separate fact from opinion
• Construct support for a thesis
• Organize writing by introduction, body, and conclusion
• Keep the reader’s attention

As well, the book offers examples so that you see thesis statements and support in practice.  See examples for: a blog post, persuasive editorial, narrative story, compare or contrast short answer, and research response. 

Few writers are masterful essayists when they start out. Writing and supporting a strong thesis statement takes time and practice. Many writers struggle with constructing a thesis and how to support one with valid information. Thesis statements are probably the most challenging elements of essay writing. In this book, we present the craft of thesis statements and their support in a simple, straightforward manner. 

The Simple Guide to Thesis Statements and Support can give you no matter what your writing task is and no matter what your writing ability is.  If you can follow a simple guide, you will be writing today.

Like all of the books in the Simple Guide Books series, The Simple Guide to Thesis Statements and Support is written for the person who may struggle with this topic and the person who needs basic explanations with straightforward examples. The book helps students, parents and professionals alike to achieve their goals of improving their writing efficiently.  

• Language: English
• Publisher: On Demand Instruction
• Release date: Dec 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9781519931252

Patricia Martin

Patricia Martin is a Reiki and massage therapist, intuitive angel reader (medium), and meditation guide. She motivates people through exercise and self-care, or allied health. She is a children’s book author who has a special rapport with children and adults alike and enjoys helping them. She works with people’s energy fields; she encourages, inspires, and motivates with her affirmations. She enjoys writing as a way to reach them in special and unique ways with her healing words. As a mother she is very aware of children’s needs and has a deep desire to help them respectfully and lovingly connect with themselves. She inspires them to be optimistic and to connect with who they truly are. She encourages them to be at one with Mother Earth by enjoying simple pleasures like having fun outdoors in nature and reading. She understands their simplicity and joy for life, but unfortunately, as they grow up, children forget these simple pleasures! Adults need to remember and have fun too! Her deep passion for writing stems back to her own childhood. Her favourite author is Enid Blyton. She remembers many happy hours up in her tree house reading wonderful books. She also has a love for writing poetry and adult self-help books, as well as for storytelling to children. She believes we all have a special and unique calling and that to follow our true path brings us the happiness we truly deserve. We should do what we came here to do and have no regrets. Life is precious, and we need to make the most of every day and listen to the whispers of our hearts.