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=== Find a focus === | === Find a focus === | ||
As writers explore their subject, they will begin to see possible ways of focusing their material. At this point a writer should settle on a tentative central idea. For many types of writing, the central idea can be asserted in one sentence, a gerneralization preparing readers for the supporting details that will follow. Such a sentence is called a thesis. The thesis sentence usually contain a controlling idea or a key work that limits its focus. (Hacker 9) | As writers explore their subject, they will begin to see possible ways of focusing their material. At this point a writer should settle on a tentative central idea. For many types of writing, the central idea can be asserted in one sentence, a gerneralization preparing readers for the supporting details that will follow. Such a sentence is called a thesis. The thesis sentence usually contain a controlling idea or a key work that limits its focus. (Hacker 9) | ||
1. | 1. ''Geometric forms known as fractals may have a profound effect on how we view the world, not only in art and film but in many branches of science and technology, from astronomy to economics to predicting the weather.'' | ||
Main Focus is the ''beneficial'' aspects of bats, and the effect of fractals on how people view the world. (Hacker 10) | Main Focus is the ''beneficial'' aspects of bats, and the effect of fractals on how people view the world. (Hacker 10) | ||
2. | 2. ''Aside from his more famous identies as colonel of the Rough Riders are President of teh United States, Theodore Roosevelt was a lifelong professional man of letters.'' | ||
Main Focus is Roosevelt's identity as a writer, or ''man of letters''. (Hacker 10) | Main Focus is Roosevelt's identity as a writer, or ''man of letters''. (Hacker 10) | ||