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Thesis Statements and Analytical Claims — Homework
Draft three candidate thesis statements about any text studied so far this year before choosing your strongest one.
- 1.Explain the falsifiability test for a thesis in one or two sentences.
- 2.Explain what is wrong with this thesis and revise it: "The General Prologue is about many different kinds of medieval people."
- 3.Draft three candidate analytical thesis statements about any text studied this year.
- 4.Apply the falsifiability test to your strongest candidate thesis: name one piece of textual evidence that could, in principle, disprove it.
- 5.Explain why a narrowed, single-claim thesis usually produces a stronger essay than a thesis stacking three separate claims.
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