1/ A thesis statement is a brief summary of your essay.

2/ From past or present pespective

3/ First or third person

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5/ To come up with fresh ideas; picking your brain, so to speak

6/ Outlining from start to end just what you intend to say

You have to be more specific, put your main paragraph topics in your thesis statement. For example Mass production, increase of population, progression of technology, child labor, increase of tuberculoses, and pollution are the positive and negative effects of the Industrial Revolution. No, you don’t pick a side. Try not to be bias just write about the negative and positive effects. In your paragraphs, you topic sentence should be something like this, of course it depends what you picked as your effects. Mass production is a positive effect of the Industrial Revolution because (say why it was a positive effect). After your topic sentence, prove your topic sentence with evidence from sources such as your book or an article on the internet. What ever you use, cite your sources.

A thesis statement is a sentence (or sentences) that expresses the main ideas of your paper and answers the question or questions posed by your paper. It offers your readers a quick and easy to follow summary of what the paper will be discussing and what you as a writer are setting out to tell them.