{"id":61,"date":"2017-05-04T21:41:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=61"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:01:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:01:50","slug":"chapter-1-thinking-ahead","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/chapter\/chapter-1-thinking-ahead\/","title":{"raw":"Thinking Ahead...","rendered":"Thinking Ahead&#8230;"},"content":{"raw":"[caption id=\"attachment_263\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<img src=\"http:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/network-1989146_1920-300x200.png\" alt=\"Hand-drawn mindmap in many colours, pointing to central box\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-263\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> Get ready to organize your thoughts on the text. From Pixabay\/<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\">CC0 1.0<\/a>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<div class=\"gs\">\r\n<div class=\"\">\r\n<div id=\":1io\" class=\"ii gt adO\">\r\n<div id=\":1g7\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<div><\/div>\r\n<div>Compare the paragraph you just wrote to your earlier essay on Charles Justice's \"The Ultimate Communications App.\" You will likely see the improvement that gathering focused pieces of evidence brings to analyzing the author\u2019s complex argument. Now that you are comfortable with information gathering and crafting an observational paragraph, we are going to take the next step toward focusing that information into a purposeful thesis.<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\nWhen you revise an observational paragraph into your unique and controversial reading of a text, you will need to capture the original text\u2019s main argument \u00a0and highlight the article\u2019s main points (including any key concepts or theories) while eliminating all extraneous or minor details. Review the observational paragraph you wrote and consider how you might revise it into a purposeful thesis that analyzes the author\u2019s complex argument.\r\n\r\nIn the next chapter we will be working on revising your observational paragraph into a 2 storey thesis statement. By this we mean that you want to do a little more than summarize or simply restate what is in the text. You want your readers to understand right away that <em>this is your reading<\/em> of the text that follows from <em>the evidence within the text that you have chosen<\/em>. You are not summarizing, rather you are persuading your readers to see what they can learn about a text by reading it <strong>your way<\/strong>.","rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-263\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/network-1989146_1920-300x200.png\" alt=\"Hand-drawn mindmap in many colours, pointing to central box\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-263\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/network-1989146_1920-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/network-1989146_1920-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/network-1989146_1920-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/network-1989146_1920-65x43.png 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/network-1989146_1920-225x150.png 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/network-1989146_1920-350x233.png 350w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/network-1989146_1920.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Get ready to organize your thoughts on the text. From Pixabay\/<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\">CC0 1.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":1io\" class=\"ii gt adO\">\n<div id=\":1g7\" class=\"a3s aXjCH\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Compare the paragraph you just wrote to your earlier essay on Charles Justice&#8217;s &#8220;The Ultimate Communications App.&#8221; You will likely see the improvement that gathering focused pieces of evidence brings to analyzing the author\u2019s complex argument. Now that you are comfortable with information gathering and crafting an observational paragraph, we are going to take the next step toward focusing that information into a purposeful thesis.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When you revise an observational paragraph into your unique and controversial reading of a text, you will need to capture the original text\u2019s main argument \u00a0and highlight the article\u2019s main points (including any key concepts or theories) while eliminating all extraneous or minor details. Review the observational paragraph you wrote and consider how you might revise it into a purposeful thesis that analyzes the author\u2019s complex argument.<\/p>\n<p>In the next chapter we will be working on revising your observational paragraph into a 2 storey thesis statement. By this we mean that you want to do a little more than summarize or simply restate what is in the text. 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