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 === Find a focus ===
-Try to come up with a focus for the essay; also known as main point.  The sentence stating the main point is called a thesis. A thesis states a claim that will be supported in the body of a paper.  For the thesis to take effect, it must be a generalization demanding further development or proof. (Hacker 13)
+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)
+. ''Italic text''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)
+. ''Italic text''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)
 === Find an audience ===