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1. what is a thesis statement.

A thesis statement is a research-backed, educated conclusion written after compiling sources that both support and oppose this conclusion. Generally, a thesis states a causal relationship between two scientific variables or historical events, etc. See below for examples of good thesis statements for high school research papers. A thesis statement also usually provides an outline for the argument in your paper so that readers know what to expect.

Can thesis statement be a question?

No, thesis statement can’t be a question. A thesis statement has to provide a clear and concise answer to the research requestion, presenting a claim that readers can evaluate based on the evidence and arguments in your paper. For example, instead of writing “Does standardized testing limit students’ creativity?” (a question), the better thesis statement should be “The U.S. education system’s reliance on standardized testing limits students’ creativity and critical thinking, highlighting the need for alternative methods of assessment”.

Can thesis statement be two sentences?

A thesis statement is preferably one sentence but consult your instructor if two sentences is acceptable. A single-sentence thesis is often more direct and easier for readers to grasp. However, for complex topics or arguments, using two sentences may be acceptable to clearly communicate the main idea and supporting details. For instance:

“The U.S. education system’s reliance on standardized testing limits students’ creativity and critical thinking. This paper will explore the negative impacts of standardized tests and propose alternative assessment methods to foster creativity.”

Before using two sentences, consult your instructor’s guidelines, as some may prefer or require a single-sentence thesis for clarity and precision.

2. Why do you need a thesis statement in your research paper?

Readers rely on your thesis statement to state the paper’s topic and claim what it’s arguing. A thesis statement not only clarifies a research paper’s direction, but also suggests the paper’s credibility. It’s crucial to conduct all your research before writing your thesis statement. Your thesis should not be a previous-held, biased opinion that you’re seeking evidence to prove. A productive, well-written thesis statement makes your paper sound thoroughly researched, detailed with credible sources, and insightful.

3. Where do you include your thesis statement in a research paper?

Your thesis statement is the last sentence of your introduction. The format of an introduction is as follows (disclaimer: this format may vary depending on your teacher’s requirements). The first sentence is a hook; consider using an interesting, unexpected statistic to simultaneously inform your reader of the topic of your paper and interest them in its importance and prevalence. Next, write the research question that your research paper is discussing and that your thesis statement answers. The following 3-5 sentences of your introduction are topic sentences of each of your body paragraphs. Each body paragraph should provide a different point serving as evidence to back your claim. Finally, your thesis concludes the introduction and serves as a concise, clear, conclusion to your research. This format—of providing evidence before the conclusion—makes your thesis appear credible, logical, and reasonable, therefore more persuasive.

4. Steps to write a compelling thesis statement

Writing a thesis statement includes conducting preliminary research, narrowing your topic scope, formulating a research question, conducting more specific research, and finalizing your claim as a conclusion to all your research. Follow these steps for how to write an eloquent, cohesive thesis statement for a high school research paper.

Step 1: Choose your topic

Before you start researching, make sure you choose a topic you’re truly interested in but don’t have a preexisting bias about, as to not cloud the objectivity and credibility of your thesis. Read how to start your research process.

Step 2: Do broad research

First, conduct background research on all arguments currently present in this research topic. Don’t rush to take a stance for your thesis. This step is primarily about learning as much about the intricate, multiple facets of the topic as possible. Search wide and note what specific niches in this topic you may be interested in diving deeper. Keep track of all your sources for your citations page.

Step 3: Narrow your topic

Once you’re finished your preliminary research and considered multiple supporting and opposing opinions, narrow down the scope of your research topic to be as specific and niche as possible (provided there is enough existing published research for you to cite). Begin developing a research question around your topic—this will be refined later on.

Step 4: Draft and answer your research question

Draft a sample thesis that answers your research question—here you begin to develop your educated opinion. Your claim must be provable, meaning it must be rooted in conclusions made from existing published research articles. Your thesis must be a theory that can be/has been proved or disproved in technical, realistic experiments. See below for examples of an unprovable thesis and other poor theses.

Step 5: Do specific research

Now that you have a clear direction, go back to conducting more specific research. Examine sources with arguments both supporting and disproving your claim. Edit your research question and answer as you gather more information. You can change your stance, and you should if you find more sources proving a different theory.

Step 6: Track your sources

Download Zotero and use the sticky notes feature to bullet main points from each of your sources. Another option is to make a notecard for each source, write main points, and physically arrange them into groups representing body paragraphs.

Step 7: Make your claim

Take a step back, look at all your research notes together, and finalize the overarching theme that your sources are supporting. Finalize this research-backed conclusion into a few sentences with a clear indication of which variables affect which effects.

Step 8: Turn it into a thesis statement

Condense your claim into 1-2 sentences to make a thesis statement. Your thesis should be concise, niche, and straightforward. Don’t try to tackle too broad of a scope. Phrase your thesis persuasively and with an interesting hook that invites readers to be curious about the evidence proving this opinion. Avoid writing a statement that is so plainly obvious and superficial that readers would be uninterested in hearing why you have come to this conclusion.

With your thesis, and throughout your paper, write objectively and stay open to research disproving your thesis. This leads to the last step of your research paper writing process. Conclude your research paper with acknowledgment of the opposing side to your thesis, and bring in a source to disprove it. Additionally, acknowledge the limitations of your thesis and suggest directions for future research.

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5. examples of thesis statements.

A good thesis should be specific, provable, objective, and with clear direction. See below examples of good and bad thesis statements. With broad thesis statements, you may use them as guides to start broad, preliminary research and later narrow them down into more specific thesis statements.

Bad Thesis Statements:

“Obesity is a major problem in the U.S., pushing healthcare institutions nationwide to improve diagnostic criteria and treatment strategies.”

• This thesis doesn’t work because it states an obvious fact about obesity in the U.S., without providing any insight into which diagnostic criteria and treatment strategies are proving useful.

“World hunger has many causes and effects, negatively affecting the quality of life of children and adults across numerous countries.”

• This thesis tackles too broad of a topic, thus making the direction of the paper vague. A suggestion for improvement is to select a single country/town, limit to one age group, and state a specific cause and effect.

“Astrological signs predict human moods, suggesting necessary workforce schedule changes to accommodate maximum efficiency and employee wellbeing.”

• This thesis is unprovable and based in pseudoscience. While astronomy is a scientific field with solid evidence, astrology is not.

“Laissez faire economy never works, because government intervention is always necessary.”

• This thesis is too subjective. Avoid using extreme language such as “never” and “always.” This thesis can be improved by naming a country, government regime, and time period when laissez faire economy was deemed unsuccessful and government intervention was necessary.

“History provides vital lessons to assist us in navigating modern day foreign policy.”

• This thesis has no direction and can be improved by replacing “history” in general with a single historical event that had a ripple effect, guiding current world leaders in their decision-making. The improved thesis may name a specific modern-day foreign policy, and the paper may go on to prove how that policy was an unmistakable effect of the aforementioned rippling historical event.

Good Thesis Statements:

“This paper will discuss the U.S. education system’s reliance on standardized testing limits on students’ creativity and critical thinking, highlighting the need for alternative methods of assessment, and proposing alternative ideas to solve this issue.”

• This thesis has a narrow scope and clearly states the cause-and-effect variables that the paper will examine. Readers can expect this paper to cite sources with experiments yielding a negative effect of standardized tests on students’ creative growth.

“This paper will argue that the abolitionist movement in the 19th century was not only a moral campaign but also a powerful political force that reshaped American society and set the stage for the Civil War, citing examples that influenced this change and addressing counterarguments.”

• This thesis works because it suggests the author has done in-depth research on preexisting historical analysis of the American abolitionist movement and brings a deeper analysis to the field. This paper may bring in primary sources and provide a fresh perspective on their significance and impact as well as secondary resources analyzing the historical time period in an innovative fashion.

“This paper will address how exposure to nature through green spaces has been shown to reduce symptoms of ADHD in children, offering a promising, non-pharmaceutical approach to treatment, citing data and examples to support this point, as well as assessing counterarguments to this point.”

• This thesis is highly specific and provable, as it suggests the paper will provide a meta-analysis of multiple research studies on the causal relationship of two highly specific variables: green spaces and children with ADHD.

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How to Restate a Thesis

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A thesis statement serves as your paper’s (or speech’s) guiding idea, alerting readers to the main points of your paper and the direction it will take. A thesis restatement, which comes in the paper’s conclusion, is the thesis’s kindred spirit, though not its identical twin. It differs from the thesis in both word choice and sentence structure. Restating your thesis at the end of the paper allows you to remind your readers of what you have proven in your body paragraphs and helps to bring your paper to a successful close.

Working out the Restatement Basics

• Sketching out a rough conclusion (the main points you want to get across) will give you an idea of the best place for the restated thesis before you actually try your hand at writing the restatement.
• Depending on the nature of your paper or of your conclusion, you may want to open your conclusion with a question or some other kind of rhetorical device, rather than a restatement of the thesis. While writing often follows prescribed formulas (such as the 5-paragraph essay), there is no one-size-fits-all approach for writing a concluding paragraph, and you may need to try out several positions for your thesis restatement to find out what works best.

• You can use the restated thesis to provide a greater level of sophistication or emotional impact to the original argument. For example, if your initial argument was that buying pets as holiday gifts is dangerous, you might restate your thesis this way: "Remember: buying that puppy as a Christmas present might seem like a good idea at the time, but it could end in the tragedy of another homeless dog by Easter."
• You can also restate your thesis to incorporate the relationship you've built with your reader. For example, if your essay was about developing business partnerships, you could begin your restatement by saying something like, "As a businessperson...." Not only will this make your restatement different from the original, but it will also help draw connections with important elements from the essay/speech.

• For example, if you have written an essay about alcohol use on college campuses, you could revisit the "So what?" question in your conclusion by providing a statement about what that means for students and for college officials. It could look something like this: "Because alcohol abuse depends on more than just the legal drinking age, it is crucial that students be educated about how alcohol abuse occurs, and also that college officials broaden their perspective to include a greater variety of aspects."

• You may be able to use something like “In conclusion” at the end of a speech, however. Signaling or signposting words—like “in conclusion” or “next”—are very important in speeches because listeners only have one chance to follow along with what you’re saying, and these words help them to keep their place.

• Avoid saying things like, “It seems like” or “It is possible that” in the restatement. One exception would be if this conditional language is part of your original thesis statement and your paper is devoted to discussing a topic that is only a possibility, not something you are stating is definitely the case. Otherwise, maintain a level of confidence.
• While maintaining confidence is crucial to the success of your paper, it’s important to acknowledge when opposition exists and not to use absolute statements which may alienate readers. Confidence in your position and in the fact that you’ve proven your point is one thing; blind certainty in your opinion is another!

Making the Restatement Distinct from the Thesis

• You can use your word processor’s thesaurus function for this, an online thesaurus, or a good old-fashioned paper thesaurus. If you use a thesaurus, however, check your chosen word in the dictionary to ensure that you know its precise meaning. Thesauruses group words very loosely by general meaning, and there is often a significant difference in connotation between them.
• It’s not necessary to change every single word, such as prepositions (“in,” “on,” “above,” “over”) and articles (“a,” “an,” and “the”). Spend your time focusing on words/phrases that receive the most emphasis, like those that are central to the points you’re making.

• Try varying your sentences by starting with different parts of speech. For example, if you began the original thesis with a prepositional phrase, start the restatement with the subject of the sentence. For instance, if the thesis starts out “Around the turn of the nineteenth century in England, women frequently…”, you might start your restatement out with something like “Women in early nineteenth-century….”
• Another way to vary the structure is to present your points in a different order. Many thesis statements include three ideas, presented in the order in which they will be discussed in the body paragraphs. When restating, you can list the points in an alternate order.

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• When restating your thesis, if you find that the statement doesn’t fit your paper anymore, you’ll want to go back to the body of your paper and try to find where things went off track. You may find that you need to revise the original thesis to reflect what you actually wrote in the paper, or that parts of the body of the paper need to be revised to better suit the thesis. Thanks Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0
• While restating your thesis is essential to the conclusion of your paper or speech, it’s not enough. You will need to emphasize main points and, depending on the assignment/goal of the paper, you may also need to call your audience to action, discuss the implications of what you have talked about in the paper, or make predictions for the future. Thanks Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0
• Think of the restatement as a new, more powerful version of your thesis—you’ve written the paper and learned a lot over that process, and now you have all of this knowledge to draw on. Thanks Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0

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Writing conclusions.

Though expectations vary from one discipline to the next, the conclusion of your paper is generally a place to explore the implications of your topic or argument. In other words, the end of your paper is a place to look outward or ahead in order to explain why you made the points you did.

Writing the Conclusion

In the past, you may have been told that your conclusion should summarize what you have already said by restating your thesis and main points. It is often helpful to restate your argument in the conclusion, particularly in a longer paper, but most professors and instructors want students to go beyond simply repeating what they have already said. Restating your thesis is just a short first part of your conclusion. Make sure that you are not simply repeating yourself; your restated thesis should use new and interesting language.

After you have restated your thesis, you should not just summarize the key points of your argument. Your conclusion should offer the reader something new to think about—or, at the very least, it should offer the reader a new way of thinking about what you have said in your paper.

You can employ one of several strategies for taking your conclusion that important step further:

• Answer the question, "So what?"
• Connect to a larger theme from the course
• Complicate your claim with an outside source
• Pose a new research question as a result of your paper's findings
• Address the limitations of your argument

The strategy you employ in writing a conclusion for your paper may depend upon a number of factors:

• The conventions of the discipline in which you are writing
• The tone of your paper (whether your paper is analytical, argumentative, explanatory, etc.)
• Whether your paper is meant to be formal or informal

Choose a strategy that best maintains the flow and tone of your paper while allowing you to adequately tie together all aspects of your paper.

The Final "So what?" Strategy

Part of generating a thesis statement sometimes requires answering the "so what?" question—that is, explaining the significance of your basic assertion. When you use the "so what?" strategy to write your conclusion, you are considering what some of the implications of your argument might be beyond the points already made in your paper. This strategy allows you to leave readers with an understanding of why your argument is important in a broader context or how it can apply to a larger concept.

For example, consider a paper about alcohol abuse in universities. If the paper argues that alcohol abuse among students depends more on psychological factors than simply the availability of alcohol on campus, a "so what?" conclusion might tie together threads from the body of the paper to suggest that universities are not approaching alcohol education from the most effective perspective when they focus exclusively on limiting students' access to alcohol.

To use this strategy, ask yourself, "How does my argument affect how I approach the text or issue?"

The "Connecting to a Course Theme" Strategy

When you use the "connecting to a course theme" strategy to write your conclusion, you are establishing a connection between your paper's thesis and a larger theme or idea from the course for which you are writing your paper.

For example, consider a paper about mothers and daughters in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding for a class called "The Inescapable South." This paper argues that a strong dependence on the mother is analogous to a strong dependence on the South. A "connecting to a course theme" conclusion for this paper might propose that Welty's daughter characters demonstrate what type of people can and cannot escape the South.

To use this strategy, ask yourself, "What is an overall theme of this course? How does my paper's thesis connect?"

The "Complicating Your Claim" Strategy

When you use the "complicating your claim" strategy to write your conclusion, you are using one or more additional resources to develop a more nuanced final thesis. Such additional resources could include a new outside source or textual evidence that seemingly contradicts your argument.

For example, consider a paper about Ireland's neutrality during World War II. This paper argues that Ireland refused to enter the war because it wanted to assert its sovereignty, not because it had no opinion about the conflict. A "complicating your claim" conclusion for this paper might provide historical evidence that Ireland did aid the Allies, suggesting that the Irish were more influenced by international diplomacy than their formal neutrality might suggest.

To use this strategy, ask yourself, "Is there any evidence against my thesis?" or "What does an outside source have to say about my thesis?"

The "Posing a New Question" Strategy

When you use the "posing a new question" strategy to write your conclusion, you are inviting the reader to consider a new idea or question that has appeared as a result of your argument.

For example, consider a paper about three versions of the folktale "Rapunzel." This paper argues that German, Italian, and Filipino versions of "Rapunzel" all vary in terms of characterization, plot development, and moral, and as a result have different themes. A "posing a new question" conclusion for this paper might ask the historical and cultural reasons for how three separate cultures developed such similar stories with such different themes.

To use this strategy, ask yourself, "What new question has developed out of my argument?"

The "Addressing Limitations" Strategy

When you use the "addressing limitations" strategy to write your conclusion, you are discussing the possible weaknesses of your argument and, thus, the fallibility of your overall conclusion. This strategy is often useful in concluding papers on scientific studies and experiments.

For example, consider a paper about an apparent correlation between religious belief and support for terrorism. An "addressing limitations" conclusion for this paper might suggest that the apparent correlation relies on the paper's definition of "terrorism" and, since the definition is not objective, the apparent correlation might have been wrongly identified.

To use this strategy, ask yourself, "In what aspects is my argument lacking? Are there circumstances in which my conclusions might be wrong?"

Polishing Your Conclusion—and Your Paper

After you've completed your conclusion, look over what you have written and consider making some small changes to promote clarity and originality:

• Unless your discipline requires them, remove obvious transitions like "in conclusion," "in summary," and "in result" from your conclusion; they get in the way of the actual substance of your conclusion.
• Consider taking a strong phrase from your conclusion and using it as the title or subtitle of your paper.

Also, be sure to proofread your conclusion carefully for errors and typos. You should double-check your entire paper for accuracy and correct spelling as well.

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At this point in your writing, you have most likely finished your introduction and the body of your thesis, dissertation, or research paper . While this is a reason to celebrate, you should not underestimate the importance of your conclusion. The conclusion is the last thing that your reader will see, so it should be memorable.

A good conclusion will review the key points of the thesis and explain to the reader why the information is relevant, applicable, or related to the world as a whole. Make sure to dedicate enough of your writing time to the conclusion and do not put it off until the very last minute.

This article provides an effective technique for writing a conclusion adapted from Erika Eby’s The College Student's Guide to Writing a Good Research Paper: 101 Easy Tips & Tricks to Make Your Work Stand Out .

While the thesis introduction starts out with broad statements about the topic, and then narrows it down to the thesis statement , a thesis conclusion does the same in the opposite order.

• Restate the thesis.
• Review or reiterate key points of your work.
• Explain why your work is relevant.
• Include a core take-away message for the reader.

Tip: Don’t just copy and paste your thesis into your conclusion. Restate it in different words.

The best way to start a conclusion is simply by restating the thesis statement. That does not mean just copying and pasting it from the introduction, but putting it into different words.

You will need to change the structure and wording of it to avoid sounding repetitive. Also, be firm in your conclusion just as you were in the introduction. Try to avoid sounding apologetic by using phrases like "This paper has tried to show..."

The conclusion should address all the same parts as the thesis while making it clear that the reader has reached the end. You are telling the reader that your research is finished and what your findings are.

I have argued throughout this work that the point of critical mass for biopolitical immunity occurred during the Romantic period because of that era's unique combination of post-revolutionary politics and innovations in smallpox prevention. In particular, I demonstrated that the French Revolution and the discovery of vaccination in the 1790s triggered a reconsideration of the relationship between bodies and the state.

Tip: Try to reiterate points from your introduction in your thesis conclusion.

The next step is to review the main points of the thesis as a whole. Look back at the body of of your project and make a note of the key ideas. You can reword these ideas the same way you reworded your thesis statement and then incorporate that into the conclusion.

You can also repeat striking quotations or statistics, but do not use more than two. As the conclusion represents your own closing thoughts on the topic , it should mainly consist of your own words.

In addition, conclusions can contain recommendations to the reader or relevant questions that further the thesis. You should ask yourself:

• What you would ideally like to see your readers do in reaction to your paper?
• Do you want them to take a certain action or investigate further?
• Is there a bigger issue that your paper wants to draw attention to?

Also, try to reference your introduction in your conclusion. You have already taken a first step by restating your thesis. Now, check whether there are other key words, phrases or ideas that are mentioned in your introduction that fit into your conclusion. Connecting the introduction to the conclusion in this way will help readers feel satisfied.

I explored how Mary Wollstonecraft, in both her fiction and political writings, envisions an ideal medico-political state, and how other writers like William Wordsworth and Mary Shelley increasingly imagined the body politic literally, as an incorporated political collective made up of bodies whose immunity to political and medical ills was essential to a healthy state.

Tip: Make sure to explain why your thesis is relevant to your field of research.

Although you can encourage readers to question their opinions and reflect on your topic, do not leave loose ends. You should provide a sense of resolution and make sure your conclusion wraps up your argument. Make sure you explain why your thesis is relevant to your field of research and how your research intervenes within, or substantially revises, existing scholarly debates.

This project challenged conventional ideas about the relationship among Romanticism, medicine, and politics by reading the unfolding of Romantic literature and biopolitical immunity as mutual, co-productive processes. In doing so, this thesis revises the ways in which biopolitics has been theorized by insisting on the inherent connections between Romantic literature and the forms of biopower that characterize early modernity.

Tip: If you began your thesis with an anecdote or historical example, you may want to return to that in your conclusion.

End your conclusion with something memorable, such as:

• a call to action
• a recommendation
• a gesture towards future research
• a brief explanation of how the problem or idea you covered remains relevant

Ultimately, you want readers to feel more informed, or ready to act, as they read your conclusion.

Yet, the Romantic period is only the beginning of modern thought on immunity and biopolitics. Victorian writers, doctors, and politicians upheld the Romantic idea that a "healthy state" was a literal condition that could be achieved by combining politics and medicine, but augmented that idea through legislation and widespread public health measures. While many nineteenth-century efforts to improve citizens' health were successful, the fight against disease ultimately changed course in the twentieth century as global immunological threats such as SARS occupied public consciousness. Indeed, as subsequent public health events make apparent, biopolitical immunity persists as a viable concept for thinking about the relationship between medicine and politics in modernity.

Need more advice? Read our 5 additional tips on how to write a good thesis conclusion.

The conclusion is the last thing that your reader will see, so it should be memorable. To write a great thesis conclusion you should:

The basic content of a conclusion is to review the main points from the paper. This part represents your own closing thoughts on the topic. It should mainly consist of the outcome of the research in your own words.

The length of the conclusion will depend on the length of the whole thesis. Usually, a conclusion should be around 5-7% of the overall word count.

End your conclusion with something memorable, such as a question, warning, or call to action. Depending on the topic, you can also end with a recommendation.

In Open Access: Theses and Dissertations you can find thousands of completed works. Take a look at any of the theses or dissertations for real-life examples of conclusions that were already approved.

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In college, typically, writing mostly takes the form of persuasion, that is, convincing other people that you have a fascinating, logical viewpoint on the subject you’re studying or even another topic that interests you. Persuasion is a skill that you practice on a regular basis. For instance, you persuade your friend to vote for your favorite candidate, your roommate to help in cleaning up the room, etc.

In college, you are mostly asked to make a persuasive case in writing. You’re mostly requested to persuade your readers of your position. This type of persuasion follows a predictable pattern in writing. After introducing your topic briefly, you then declare your position using a sentence or two. This is what is referred to as a thesis statement, and it acts as a summary of the argument you will make in your paper.

A thesis statement acts as your essay’s guiding idea, informing readers on the central points of your work and the direction it will take. If you want to restate thesis (a thesis restatement), you do it in the essay’s conclusion. It is different from the thesis when it comes to sentence structure and choice of words. Restating the thesis at the end of your essay enables you to remind your readers about what you’ve proven in your essay’s paragraphs and assists you to bring your work to a successful conclusion.

Without further ado, if you want to know how to restate a thesis statement, the following tips will assist you.

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Academic level: Undergraduate

Subject: History

Decide Where You’d Want to do the Restatement

Most writers tend to restate thesis at the beginning of the conclusion. However, it does not necessarily imply that the restatement has to be the first sentence. Drafting a rough conclusion will provide you with an idea of the ideal place for the thesis restatement before you attempt to write it.

When it comes to matters concerning how to restate a thesis, you may want to begin your conclusion with a question or some type of rhetorical device, instead of a restatement of the thesis. While writing mostly follows set formulas, for instance, the 5-paragraph essay, there is no one-size-fits-all method for writing a concluding paragraph, and you might need to experiment with several positions for your restatement in order to figure out the most suitable one.

Make the Most Out of the Work You’ve Done

When your reader goes through the original thesis in the intro, he or she had not gone through the rest of the essay; however, by now the reader has done that. Take advantage of this. When restating the thesis, make use of the information you’ve discussed or relationships you have established throughout the essay.

You can make use of the restated thesis to provide a higher level of emotional impact to the original document. For instance, if your initial argument was that purchasing pets as holiday gifts is dangerous, your thesis can be restated in this manner, Remember: purchasing that puppy as a Christmas gift might appear like a great idea at first, but it could result in the tragedy of another homeless animal by the time Easter comes.

Moreover, the thesis statement can be restated to incorporate the relationship you have developed with your reader. For instance, if your essay was about establishing business partnerships, you could start your thesis restatement like this, As a person in business… Doing this will make your restatement different from the original thesis and will also assist in drawing connections with crucial elements from the essay.

How to Restate a Thesis in a Conclusion Answer the So What? Question

A good thesis statement will focus on addressing the so what’ question. A good thesis statement will inform your readers why your argument is significant. Why should someone care about your topic? Reexamining this issue in your conclusion will assist in giving it the weight it requires. For instance, if you have composed an essay on alcohol use in college, you could reexamine the so what question in your conclusion by providing a statement about what it means for students and college officials in general. You could restate it this way, Since alcohol abuse hinges on more than the legal drinking age, it’s important that students be educated on how alcohol abuse happens and also that authorities in college widen their perspective to incorporate a wider variety of aspects.

How to Restate a Thesis – Steer Clear of Clichés

On matter concerning tips on how to restate a thesis statement in a conclusion, you should strive to avoid utilizing phrases like “in conclusion.” These kinds of phrases are common, overworked phrases that might imply that you lack originality and creativity, instead of a fresh take on what you have mentioned in your essay, which is what you want your restatement to achieve.

However, as for speeches, you could use a phrase like “in conclusion.” These kinds of signaling words are crucial in speeches since the audience only has one chance to follow along with what you are talking about.

Do Not Apologize

When it comes to matters about how to restate a thesis statement, you ought to assume that you’ve given proof throughout the essay, and do not make apologies. This will weaken the conclusion and the paper in general. Avoid mentioning phrase like, “it is possible that or it seems like when you want to restate thesis.

One exemption could be if this conditional language is part of the original theses and your essay is dedicated to discussing a subject matter that is only a possibility, and not something that you’re stating is certainly the case. You need to maintain a certain level of confidence. Whereas maintaining confidence is critical to the essay’s success, it’s vital to acknowledge when an opposing viewpoint exists and not to use absolute statements which might alienate your readers. Have confidence in your stance and in the fact that your point is proven is crucial.

Making the Thesis Restatement Different from the Thesis

Change the Structure

On matters regarding how to restate a thesis in a conclusion, the restatement ought to be dissimilar from the original thesis, not only in its language but also in structure. Moreover, this is also applicable in all levels of clauses within sentences.

Strive to vary your sentences by beginning with different parts of speech. For instance, if you start the original thesis with a prepositional phrase, begin the restatement with the subject of the sentence. If, for example, the thesis begins as Around the beginning of the twentieth century in the United States, people of color… you might begin your thesis restatement like this, People of color in early twentieth century…

Furthermore, another method of changing the structure is to present your points in a different order. Most thesis statements contain three ideas that are presented in the order in which they will be discussed in the body paragraphs. You can go ahead and outline the points in an alternate order.

How to State a Thesis Vary the Tense

If you are composing an essay, the thesis statement was probably written in the future tense, informing your readers what you’re about to do over the course of the paper, for instance , I will examine the effects of using coal.” When you restate thesis, you ought to change to past tense and inform the audience what you’ve already done, for instance, “I explained how harmful the use of coal is to the environment.”

Use Different Words

Look for synonyms for crucial words and concepts in the original thesis and replace them in your thesis restatement. You can make use of the thesaurus function in your word processor, the traditional paper dictionary, or even an online thesaurus. If you use a thesaurus, ensure that you check your selected word in the dictionary to know its exact meaning.

Words in thesauruses are mostly grouped by general meaning, and there’s often a major connotation difference between them. It’s not a must to change every word, for example, prepositions and articles. Concentrate on words or phrases that get the most emphasis, such as those that are critical to the points you are making.

Break up the Points

When dealing with matters regarding how to restate a thesis statement, you need to split up the points. In the introduction, the thesis was probably one sentence or two, with all the points made right in a row. In your thesis restatement, try to split your points across several sentences and spread them across the paragraph. This will lead to variety between the thesis and restatement and also enable you to suggest how you have proven your points across the body of your essay.

There you have it! A thesis statement isn’t like a scientific title you give your research paper. It emphasizes your stance on a particular, interesting subject matter. When you restate a thesis, make sure it is strong and definitive. Employ the above tips on how to restate a thesis statement in a conclusion to make it effective.