The California Code of Regulations: Title 5 Education, Section 40510 defines a thesis as: The written product of a systematic study of a significant problem. It identifies the problem, states the ...

To help students identify evidence significant for use in a comparative analysis (via close readings of texts) and develop a thesis based on this evidence. Students have already read and been ...

Students will have completed at least one full length writing assignment. Two introductory paragraphs from these assignments are selected to be circulated in class. Ideally these paragraphs will each ...