DEVELOPING A THESIS

This is particularly for those who are yet to write their theses and other academic papers.

You are about starting, right? Cool! This thread is aimed at giving you step by step assistance to enable you write impressive papers. I'll do my best to update this thread at least once each day.



See yourself as a member of a jury, mandated to listen to a lawyer or a team of lawyers who are before you, presenting an open argument.

You'll certainly want to know if these lawyers think the accused is guilty or not, and how they intend to convince you.

That is what readers of academic papers are. They are like members of the jury. As soon as they start reading, they want to pick the essence of the paper and all it argues about. They also want to know the very methodology the writer employed and how well it suits the topic in question.

After zapping through your thesis' statement, a reader should have his or her mind on a possible convincing end of what they, perhaps, weren't convinced about.

Always bear in mind that a thesis isn't a mere topic, neither is it a question that can be answered with a "yes" or "no".

What we call a good thesis, however, is one that satisfies all major areas of the subject. It tells about what you plan to argue on, and it explains, in details, how you intend to make your argument.

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It might seem tedious really but our best advice to you is to follow the tips which I will be posting here in bits to write your thesis yourself as this is also part of learning and will, most likely, add to your exposure.

Pay good attention to the steps you need in Constructing a nice thesis. First is to analyze your primary sources. Before proceeding to the literature of your thesis, look at your statement again — look for interest, tension, ambiguity, controversy, and/ or complication. Does it contradict itself in anyway? Is there any point that was made and later reversed? What are the deeper implications of its argument?


Figuring out the "why" to these questions or similar ones, will put you on the right path towards developing a good thesis. (Ignoring the "why", you would probably have only come up with a mere observation — that there are, for example, many different languages in the world, and certainly, this isn't a thesis).


As soon as you hit a working thesis, write it down. This is if your supervisor did not make that choice for you. Always endeavour to have a defined direction for your thesis and focus on it. It can be exceedingly tedious to have mixed ideas for a thesis.


When you have written down your thesis, you will, most likely, feel compelled to think of it clearly, logically, and concisely. Perhaps, you have tried drafting a clear version of your thesis and saw it flopped. Don't worry, it is always like that if you are writing something as voluminous as a thesis for the very first time. All you need is to follow the guideline and then consistently work on it, marking sure you have abundant materials for your work. Don't hesitate to write down what you have lest they fly away. Do as much as you can to keep your thesis' statement prominent.


The usual place for a thesis statement is at the end of an introductory paragraph, especially in shorter seminar papers. Readers are used to finding theses' statement there, so they automatically pay greater attention when they read the last sentences of your introduction. Although there are exceptions in certain academic papers, it is a good rule of thumb.


Anticipate the counterarguments. You already have a working thesis to work on, pause a bit to think of what can be said against it — such that you'll need to refute later on in your literature. You must know, every argument has a counterargument. If yours doesn't, then it's not an argument. It may be a fact, or an opinion, but certainly not an argument. Goodluck Jonathan lost the 2015 presidential election because he lost grip on electoral handlers. This statement is on its way to being a thesis. However, it is too easy to imagine possible counterarguments. For instance, a political observer might believe that Jonathan lost because he had questionable elements in his government.


If you complicate your thesis by anticipating the counterargument, you'll strengthen your argument, as shown in the sentence below. While Goodluck Jonathan seemed soft towards bringing the questionable elements in his government to book, his failure to institutionalize transparent electoral act bore a greater responsibility for his defeat in the 2015 general election.

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