A Friday Evening with Mr. Omid…

Last Friday (11^th July 2008) was our first tutorial for the subject EDU 3234. As Dr. Edwin mentioned earlier, during tutorial Mr. Omid will be our tutor. As for today, we continue the tutorial by discussing on how to make a good thesis statement.

Mr. Omid had given us a handout that consists of three sheets. The handout provides a lot of examples on how to make the good thesis statements. The handout is really good because it provides the examples of bad thesis which in my opinion that is good because we can take as a lesson and at the same time the handout shows which are the good theses suppose to be from the bad thesis.

Actually, when he explained the first two pages of the handout, I’m still quite blurring about that. This is because, I noticed some of the examples of good theses are short and some are long. I keep wondering is it a good thesis statement must be long and what criteria actually to judge a good thesis?

My questions on that had been answered on the next pages. Now, I know whether the sentence of our thesis is long or short it does not necessary. The most important is a good thesis statement must answer of those questions “how” and “why”.

I think my understanding on how to do a thesis statement is became clearer when we do discussion group. In the group we are required to come out with a thesis statement of the story, Ovid Metamorphosis, “Pyramus and Thisbe”

At first, my group members had difficult to generate ideas to make a thesis based on the story. Most of our ideas, we think it is a theme but not considered as a thesis statement. So, we decided to combine all the themes to come out with a thesis which answered the question “how it happens” and “why it happens”.

Mr. Omid called some groups to write down their theses on the white board. I felt so happy because our thesis statement is the most accurate so far. However, we had to improve on some of the words that we used in the sentence.

We will continue discuss about that and learn on how to find the points to support our stand in the following session.