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Reflection: Oh My Thesis
How in the world do I write a thesis? I kept racking my brain with
that sentence when the class was given an assignment to come up with two thesis statements for our next assignment. I really felt like I had no idea what I was doing (like I was back in Spanish class). All the examples we were given were more like thesis paragraphs instead of statements and I had no idea how to interpret this book.
The Mind at Word: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker, by
Mike Rose, was a hard book to get through. I was constantly asking myself, “What did I just read?� Luckily, I understood the message of the book, which I enjoy, but I feel like Rose needed to find different ways to explain it.
After a class of going through sample thesis and I felt just a tad bit
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