Thesis Statements



Rules for Thesis Statements Specific to Rhetorical Analysis

1. Thesis must include three to five rhetorical devices that writer will examine.

2. Thesis must include an evaluative statement referencing the success or failure of the author situated in a rhetorical framework.

3. Thesis must identify the purpose and thesis of the author under investigation.

4. Thesis should offer your reader a sense of the paper to come. Your rhetorical devices act as topic sentences in this type of paper.

5. Thesis should not include any unnecessary information. Unnecessary information is anything that does not have to be there. Take some phrases of your thesis and remove them. If the removal of these phrases does not affect the content of your argument, then it is unnecessary. Article titles are not even necessary for our purposes. Make it as short and clear as possible. I cannot stress this enough.

Example Thesis Statements

Christine Rosen employs an extended metaphor, psychological studies, and a sarcastic tone to effectively persuade her audience that social media websites form shallow connections that are detrimental to the consumer.

Christine Rosen persuades her audience to believe that social media websites have negative effects on their users.

Christine Rosen uses the rhetorical devices of an extended metaphor, sarcasm, and psychological studies in her article.

David Crystal persuades his audience that text speech and the culture that comes from it are positive markers of linguistic evolution.

In “Is PowerPoint the Devil?” Julia Keller successfully persuades her audience to believe that PowerPoint is a dangerous technology that causes its users to lose originality by relying on interviews with scholars, an informal tone, and a large number of rhetorical questions.

By relying on interviews with scholars, an informal tone, and a large number of rhetorical questions, Julia Keller successfully persuades her audience to believe that PowerPoint is a dangerous technology that causes its users to lose originality.

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