Thesis Statement and the Way to Support It

An essay usually begins with background introduction and a thesis statement. Thesis statement, or thesis, is the point the author makes about a certain topic. The essay is supposed to be written revolving this statement,with all the following parts developed supporting it.

A good and effective thesis statement consists of two parts: one is the essay’s topic, the other being the writer’s point made on this topic, it could be called “the controlling idea”. Here is an example: 

The campaign yesterday was a huge success. 

In this thesis statement, the topic is “the campaign”, and the writer’s point on this topic is that it “was a huge success”.

When you have a thesis statement that you can work with, you need to find enough evidence to support it. This evidence is often shown as supporting points in an essay outline. Remember it is very important to stretch an outline before writing anything substantial.

We will first look the following example: “The man should be rewarded for his hard work”. How would you bring up at least two supporting points to prove that the man indeed deserves a reward by his boss? Perhaps one argument would be: “He often works overtime even if he is not asked to”. And the other could be: “Customers often praise him for his consideration and diligence”.

After writing out the outline which includes both of the thesis statement and supporting points, what you need to do to make this preliminary outline even more fulfilled is to add in specific evidence or details as a kind of support for individual points.