Persuasive Essay: Thesis Statement and Gathering Resources Worksheet

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Persuasive Essay: Thesis Statement and Gathering Resources Worksheet

Part 1: Thesis Statement

Assignment Directions:

Review “Thesis Statements” in the “Drafting the College Essay” section of “The Writing Process” media piece.

Here is an example of a persuasive thesis statement from our essay.

Grass fed beef is a much healthier option than corn fed beef because it has higher nutritional value, can provide the body with much needed Omega 3 fatty acids, and has the health benefits of conjugated linoleic acid.

Stance: Grass fed beef is a much healthier option than corn fed beef.

Subtopic 1: it has higher nutritional value.

Subtopic 2: it can provide the body with much needed Omega 3 fatty acids.

Subtopic 3: and has the health benefits of conjugated linoleic acid.

Create a thesis statement for your persuasive essay. Your thesis statement should be one sentence that includes three subtopics.

Write your thesis statement in the box below:

Topic: Educational reform

Stance: Educational reform is important, but they face challenges when implementing it.

Subtopic 1: Limited budgets

Subtopic 2: Lack of enough resources and personnel.

Subtopic 3: Need for including technology in the development and implementation.

Once you have identified all parts of your thesis, work to create the one sentence thesis statement below.

Thesis Statement:

In the education sector, educational reform is better educational option as compared to traditional educational reform but it experiences difficulties in its development and implementation due to limited budgets, lack of enough resources and personnel as well as increased requirements of incorporating technology. Comment by Monica Perrone: This thesis statement is a bit wordy. Also, wouldn’t lack of resources and technology be due to limited budgets? All of your subtopics fall under lack of resources. Please come up with two new subtopics. Education reform should be implemented because it lacks resources, _____________, and____________. Please run your revised thesis statement by me in the private forum. -4

Thesis Statement Self-Evaluation:

Consider the following questions when developing the thesis statement for your essay. The answer to each of the four questions below should be yes if you have drafted a quality thesis statement.

1) Is your topic stated in the thesis?

Yes

2) Does your thesis include your position/stance?

Yes

3) Is the thesis statement specific?

Yes

4) Does the thesis include three subtopics?

Yes

Part 2: Gathering Resources

Assignment Directions:

Review “Research and Sources” in the media piece “The Writing Process.”

Use the GCU Library to find three Peer Reviewed sources to use in your persuasive essay. Each source must be current (published within the last 10 years). Fill out the requested information in the table below about your sources.

	Thesis subtopic	Title and Author(s)	Write a 50-word response to the following question: How is this source relevant to your subtopic?	APA References	Permalink (GCU Library permanent link) Comment by Monica Perrone: The permalinks were not provided. Without permalinks, I cannot verify your resources and peer reviewed from the GCU library. -30
Article supporting your Subtopic 1	Limited budgets	Mario Claassen. Topic: Making the budget work for Education: Experiences, achievements, and lessons from civil society budget work.	The relevancy of this source to my topic is that it is supporting the instance being studied. As an example, the article has managed to reveal that funds are available for facilitating the educational reform, but these budgets are never enough at all. As a result, the budgets must be made work so that they might fit and serve the intended purposes they are supposed to serve in the implementation of an educational reform.	Mario Claassen. (2011). Making the budget work for Education: Experiences, achievements, and lessons from civil society budget work.	www.internationalbudget.org>uploads>2011/01>Making...
Article supporting your Subtopic 2	Lack of enough resources and personnel.	Ian Scott and Paul Morris. Topic: Educational reform and policy implementation in Hong Kong.	The above source is an important and rich article, and it is highly relevant to the subtopic. The manner that it is relevant for the above subtopic is that it has revealed that educational reform and implementation of a policy is important in the education sector. However, it is greatly challenged in that the available personnel and other resources needed for the implementation are never enough at all for enabling this implementation to be done effectively and fully.	Ian Scott and Paul Morris. (15th October 2020). Educational reform and policy implementation in Hong Kong. A Journal on Educational policy, 18(1). 71-84.	www.researchgate.net>publication>248975362_Educations...
Article supporting your Subtopic 3	Need for including technology in the development and implementation.	Rebecca Mora Rodriguez. Topic: Implementation process of technology: the case of blackboard 9.1 in the University of Manchester.	The article is relevant in that it has revealed technology is required to be implemented and it goes beyond having a lot of computers in schools. The situation also entails having the relevant personnel that will run these computers. However, the situation is not all that simple since these computers are not readily available as they have to be bought and the personnel is not all that available.	Rebecca Mora Rodriguez. (2013). Implementation process of technology: the case of blackboard 9.1 in the University of Manchester.	www.scielo.sa.cr>scielo