Quiz 2: THESIS or TOPIC?

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What unit of course?              
Is this Essay 1, Essay 2, etc?
What professor?                      
What course section number?
 

1) If a TOPIC is just some observation about a text, then a THESIS is:


A CLAIM THAT IS ARGUABLE
A MATCHED SET OF STATEMENTS
A MISCUE ANALYSIS
DON'T KNOW

 

2) If you want to turn an observation about a text into a thesis, you must:


MAKE IT OVER 100 WORDS
MAKE IT SOMETHING ARGUABLE
MAKE IT EMOTIONAL
MAKE IT RETROACTIVE

 

3) Computer analysis of texts works best with theses that have:


SOMETHING TO BE COUNTED
CASES AND ETHNOGRAPHY
GRAPHICAL IMAGES
MANY FOOTNOTES

 

4) A thesis claiming that all Shakespeare's women were presented negatively is hard to prove because:



SHAKESPEARE IS DEAD
SHAKESPEARE WROTE IN LATIN
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN WERE UGLY
SHAKESPEARE'S STANDARDS AREN'T OURS

 

5)   How is a THESIS different from an observation or topic?
For instance, why isn't saying "I'm going to write something about
Shakespeare's Hamlet"  a thesis?

Work with the person sitting next to you on answering this.

How could you explain the difference between a THESIS and a topic in the
case above if you had to teach it to someone else?