Thesis Statement

Omid, I think that is his name. I am not sure whether I spelled it correctly. He is ours tutor for ours position paper. In ours first session with him, he taught us how to construct a ‘thesis statement’. According to him, thesis statement is the central point you are proving. Thesis statement must states the topic of the research paper, shows purpose of my essay which to persuade my readers that my point is valid and deserves serious consideration, shows direction of my argument and interesting which shows a clear voice and style. He gave examples on the whiteboard. Then, he asked each of us to come up with a thesis statement related to UPM. I gave my thesis statement which “UPM has been wasting money on physical developments than their services” which Omid said a good example of thesis statement (I do not want to brag but this was what he say) but suggested I do not let anyone or UPM people know about this (too late now). After checking and commenting some of my friends’ thesis statements, he told us that for our second session, he will give a list of literary texts that we are going to do for our position paper. We were shocked. We thought that we can choose our own literary texts. I was thinking of doing Oedipus Rex. I also showed him my thesis to him and he said that my statement is a thesis. Darn it. Oh well. God moves in a mysterious way.