ACT Preparation / Unit 5 ACT 0404 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Thesis
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The idea
A thesis is a text's controlling idea: everything else develops or supports it. In academic writing it often closes the introduction.
In practice
"School gardens teach more science than a textbook can" is a thesis; every paragraph after it should help show why.
Where people slip
A topic is not a thesis. "School gardens" names a subject; a thesis takes an angle on it.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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