ENGL101 FORUM 3
Post your thesis statement for Essay 2 here as a one- sentence thesis statement. Please bold it and identify it, so that we can all tell what it is.

Make sure you are writing one sentence only, and that you are not using a question. For example, “Should children wear uniforms in public schools?” is not a thesis sentence. To be a thesis

sentence, the sentence must take a stand and be a declarative sentence.

After you post your thesis statement, discuss how you arrived at that one sentence. What process of thought led to that sentence? Did you conduct research on your topic before coming up

with your thesis statement? Have you taken a stand in your thesis statement? Do you think that when you do more research on your topic, your stand might change? Did you start with one

thesis and evolve into another?

(It is expected, in academic writing, that you may need to change your thesis statement as you work on your essay. You may believe one thing, only to find through research that your initial

beliefs must be adjusted. Or, you may have to change your topic somewhat due to available research.)

After you have discussed your thesis statement, discuss how you will outline Essay 2. Provide at least three supporting ideas or directions, and show how they will support your thesis. Why did

you select the three ideas you selected, and how do they develop your essay? How will you find research to support your three ideas? Remember, in the Essay 2 assignment, all of your research

must be from one of these three online databases in the APUS  online library—EBSCO, ProQuest, and LexisNexis. No open web sources are allowed for this assignment.

After you have made your initial post, Part 1 and Part 2, respond to at least two classmates with ideas for how their thesis statement might be refocused, improved, or clarified. Remember, be

constructive, and feel free to ask questions about directions for more research, like, “Did you consider whether uniforms lead to better scholastic performance—will you back that up with

statistics?”