Once you write your thesis statement, please post it and someone here will critique it for you.
Here are some sites to help with thesis statements:
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/thesistatement.html
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/thesis_statement.shtml
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/thesis.html
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thesis statement for human nature, good or evil, end of innocence/youth, belief in God/goodness, survival, savagery vs civilization
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People are born innocent and human nature is to be good.
That's pretty broad. It would be good for a first sentence in your introduction, but your thesis (which should be the LAST sentence in the introduction) should be more specific so that it leads directly into your paper. Please read over the examples and corrections in the leo.stcloudstate.edu link above.
Do you have the rest of your paper planned? Perhaps an outline? If you don't have that done, you need to do so. Remember to follow the writing process completely, or you'll most likely end up with a very disjointed paper.
http://esl.about.com/cs/writing/ht/ht_essay.htm
This is a fairly good listing of the steps in the writing process. The one thing they have left out, though, is that you'll probably need to revise your thesis statement once you have the outline done.
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Do you have the rest of your paper planned? Perhaps an outline? If you don't have that done, you need to do so. Remember to follow the writing process completely, or you'll most likely end up with a very disjointed paper.
http://esl.about.com/cs/writing/ht/ht_essay.htm
This is a fairly good listing of the steps in the writing process. The one thing they have left out, though, is that you'll probably need to revise your thesis statement once you have the outline done.
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