Chapter Four Part 2 I’m going to give you a quick exercise I use in class to teach this. It involves reading a short fable, and then telling me what the moral of the story is. (In fact, if you grew up on the stereotypical western fable diet, you don’t even need to read it: […]
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You may have noticed, if you’re an astute, noticey sort of person, that the cover for How To Theme lists the series as Inkprint Writers #2. Number two? you say (assuming you’re one of the astute noticey people). But what happened to number one?! BEHOLD. NUMBER ONE. Previously The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About
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Chapter Three Okay, so now that we’ve established the groundwork, we can get down to the nitty-gritty of why you’re actually here: figuring out what theme is I said at the end of chapter one that people often find it easier to divine the point of non-fiction; this is because it’s often stated clearly and
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Chapter Two Part 2 If you’re happy enough with this, feel free to move on to chapter three now. But if you’d like to consolidate your understanding even further, have a look at the sample introduction below to see some thesis statements in context. In each instance, you can see that the thesis statement clearly
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The common misery of the world feels overwhelming. Petty cruelty; major abominations; selfishness, thoughtlessness; slavery, abandonment, abduction, discrimination, hatred, you know the list, it goes on and on and on and on, and this is one of those weeks where it’s been grating on my soul more than usual, one of those months, one of
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Chapter Two Part 1 Wait, what’s a thesis* again? * Remember, thesis is singular, theses is plural. If it’s been a while since you last wrote an essay, or if you’ve somehow been writing essays all this time without understanding the concept of a thesis, let me break this down for you real quick. The
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This is the book that made me fall in love with Maggie Stiefvater as a reader. I really enjoyed the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy, but Scorpio Races melted my heart and reforged into something bigger, brighter and stronger. So I LOVED that I got to teach it at school last year–and in that process,
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