College Composition / Unit 13 CMP 0306 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Revising a Thesis as Ideas Change
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The idea
When the draft discovers a sharper point than the working thesis, revise the thesis to match.
In practice
A paper that set out to argue that tuition is too high may find its real point is that state funding cuts drive the increases.
Where people slip
Revising the thesis means rechecking every paragraph against it.
Your place on the trail
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