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Defining Your Purpose and Thesis
Chapter Objectives
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This chapter concentrates on defining the purpose for a particular writing task and coming up with an effective thesis.
The chapter objectives that follow will help you figure out whether you have really mastered the material presented in this chapter.
After reading this chapter and completing its exercises, you should be able to:
- Explain to another student how to define the focus of a writing task or assignment and create a focus statement
- Explain to another student how to define the purpose of a writing task or assignment and create a purpose statement
- Recognize and employ several rhetorical purposes to help with decision making, including roughing out a purpose structure and particularizing your purposes
- Define a main idea, working thesis, and extended or modified thesis
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