Jay's Tips: How to Create Effective Thesis - Use the Thesis Generator!

Jay's Sample for Cesar Chavez Paper:

 1. What is your topic?

• Cesar Chavez

2. What is your stance or claim?

• Cesar Chavez was a great leader for farmworkers

3. What is your rational for this stance?

• Cesar challenged growers to provide a living wage and basic human amenities such as clean water, decent housing, and adequate medical care.

4. What concessions do you make to qualify your stance and acknowledge opposition?

• Although many of Cesar’s ideas and strategies often divided his own people and coworkers…

5. Qualification + Stance + Rationale = Thesis #1

• Although many of Cesar’s ideas and strategies often divided his own people and coworkers,  he  fought to the end to provide them  a living wage and basic human amenities such as clean water, decent housing, and adequate medical care.   

6. Alternative Thesis – Thesis #2

• Cesar believed in non-violent struggle to achieve social justice, but most of all, he believed  in education as the best tool for the poor to defend themselves.

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