marmeeofsix Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 What curriculum do you use to teach your high school students how to write a Thesis paper? Thanks! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mims Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Very dry but laid out and straightforward - Meaningful compositions Get you brain working, think through the logic, etc. - Lost Tools of Writing I've done both and liked the completely different combo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MommyThrice Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 The Lively Art of Writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tullia Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Frank D'Angelo's Composition in the Classical Tradition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanine in TX Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 We mainly use the writing lessons in Rod & Staff English. I also like 501 Writing Prompts. It includes several examples of good and bad essays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmeeofsix Posted December 21, 2011 Author Share Posted December 21, 2011 Thanks everybody! I'm going to google them all. I did a little looking online and I'm very confused, because a lot of the things I read was talking about essays and I thought an essay was completely different than a thesis. Ugh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swimmermom3 Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Reported and reported some more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22ns Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Lively Art of Writing defines an Essay as a paper in which you present and defend a thesis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WishboneDawn Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Lovely Art of writing here as a well. My daughter worked through this last year, enjoyed it and had a clear idea now of how to develop a thesis and outline and structure an essay. Wonderful little book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmos Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Thanks everybody! I'm going to google them all. I did a little looking online and I'm very confused, because a lot of the things I read was talking about essays and I thought an essay was completely different than a thesis. Ugh! The words "essay" and "thesis" each have different meanings in different contexts. Perhaps that is the confusion. In general, an essay is just a short piece of writing. It could be descriptive or narrative. It could be a personal statement or an attempt at persuasion or even a short memoir. It really has more to do with the length than the content. If you get a collection of "essays" from the library, you'll find all kinds of writing on all kinds of subjects. In a school setting, though, usually "essay" refers to a specific type of short writing, i.e. a short *persuasive* paper. Its subject could be almost anything: historical, contemporary, literary, political, etc., but the defining feature is that it asserts a contention and then presents an argument in favor of that contention. That contention is what's called a "thesis". The book Lively Art of Writing is devoted to writing this kind of essay. A thesis, then, could be the contention asserted in a persuasive essay. Other types of papers, including research papers, can also have a thesis. The term "thesis" is also used, primarily in post-secondary education, to mean a long research paper, usually involving original research. So a graduate student will write a "doctoral thesis" to complete a PhD. So, when you asked for advice on writing a "thesis paper", I think most people interpreted that to mean an "essay" of the second type. Did you mean a research paper instead? Or something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swimmermom3 Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Old thread that I think the spammers pulled up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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