This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. Thesis statements are essentially the driving force and backbone of an academic essay. Without a thesis statement, your essay will ...

Thesis Statement However different his characters may be ... While this author's roadmap falls a bit short of the brief outline of an essay's structure that is often found in the introduction of ...

Number the paragraphs in your essay and in the reverse outline as you go. Look at the "what" column. Does the essay move logically? (For example, the argument moves from general topic to thesis ...