Thesis Statement Breakdown

1. Thesis statement:

In order to make a good impression at a job interview, you should prepare well for the interview.

Question:

what should you do to prepare for the interview?

Answers:

• Plan your answers to the possible questions.
• Plan and prepare what you are going to wear.
• Make sure you arrive on time.

The central idea in the thesis is prepared well. Here the writer chose to breakdown the thesis into the steps of a process.

Subtopic:

I myself believed that in order to be well prepared for an interview, I should had a good planning for probable question, wearing suitable cloths and arriving on time.

2. Thesis statement:

Watching television is not a waste of time.

Question:

Why isn't it a waste of time?

Answers:

• Because it is a valuable educational tool.
• Because it cheers us up.
• Because it provide something for our family to discuss.

With the central idea of not a waste of time, the writer's approach here is to discuss the advantages of having television.

Subtopic:

I believed that watching television isn't waste of time because of its instructional programs, its cheering us up and providing something for us to discuss.

3. Thesis statement:

New York and Hong Kong are more alike than people think.

Question:

In what ways are they alike?

Answers:

• They are both enormous.
• They both have lots of different ethnic groups.
• They are both port cities.

In this breakdown, the writer selected points of similarity to develop the thesis.

Subtopic:

I believed that New York and Hong Kong are alike each other because of their being enormous, having lots of different ethnic groups and being port cities.