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Literary Thesis
FOCUS YOUR WRITING
Most topics will first come to you as an inviting – sometimes perplexing array of possibilities. They’ll be open-ended, broad, general, unfocussed.
To focus a project means becoming clear about your subject, what you want to do with it and the point you want to make about it.
REMINDER: You may not be able to decide everything at once. Infact, if you focus on too
much too soon you will not see the important parts of your topic.
So before you begin with the first draft use the following strategies:-
(1) NARROWING YOUR TOPIC:- Try to focus on one narrow but important part of your topic and the significance of that part.
Examples:-
I.
BROAD TOPIC: My life growing upon a farm.
WORKING TOPIC: The benefits of a country life.
NARROW TOPIC: My country education: the facts of life – and death – down the farm.
II
BROAD TOPIC: America’s national parks.
WORKING TOPIC: Overcrowding in national parks.
NARROW TOPIC: The environmental consequences of overcrowding in national parks.
III.
BROAD TOPIC: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper.’
WORKING TOPIC: “The Wall-Paper.”
NARROW TOPIC: “The Wall-Paper” as a reflection of the narrator’s state of mind.
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