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Locating the thesis statement and topic sentences in a text allows readers to quickly understand the key information and arguments. Reading only these essential elements enables readers to get the gist of the text without having to read the entire document. Finding the thesis upfront, typically in the introduction, presents the overall point of an academic essay. It can be identified using common phrases that signal the topic, such as "This study examines..." or "This paper aims to..."

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GC Lesson and Activity

Locating the thesis statement and topic sentences in a text allows readers to quickly understand the key information and arguments. Reading only these essential elements enables readers to get the gist of the text without having to read the entire document. Finding the thesis upfront, typically in the introduction, presents the overall point of an academic essay. It can be identified using common phrases that signal the topic, such as "This study examines..." or "This paper aims to..."

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Accomplishing something quickly but efficiently and

accurately is one skill you will definitely find useful in


life. This skill is also helpful in your academic classes,
especially when you have to read various texts. One
effective way of increasing your speed in reading is by
finding the main idea or thesis statement of the text and
the topic sentence of the paragraphs. If you can locate
the thesis statement and the topic sentences, you do not
have to read the entire text to get the key information
you need. It will also give you an idea of the text and
help you evaluate the author’s arguments as you read.
THESIS STATEMENT presents or
describes the point of an essay and is
presented in the abstract in an academic
text.
A thesis statement can be found in the first,
middle, and last part of the introduction.
See the examples in the following slides.
This study examines the viewpoints of Macau and
Singapore residents on the development of casino gambling
and the social, economic, and environmental impacts that
are thought to arise. It also assesses whether differences
exist between socio-demographic groupings. The sample
compromised 416 respondents from Macau and 409 from
Singapore. An analysis using primarily descriptive statistics
indicated both sub-samples had similar viewpoints
although Macau residents tended to have higher scores
pertaining to the consequences of gambling. It is suggested
that the differences arise due to the greater exposure of
Macau residents to the influences of casino development.
Teaching English for specific purposes is sometimes quite a daunting
challenge for most of the teachers in any part of the world despite their
personal motivation, expertise, and availability of the best resources.
With the rapid encroachment of digital technology on all fields of
academic teaching and learning, it becomes all the more incumbent for
educators to have effective strategies to incorporate and exploit the
ubiquitous and popular digital platforms to teach their “digital native”
students to have better results. Considering the paramount influence of
these digital platforms and social media, this study aims at exploring
the potent effect of Facebook as one of the pervasive digital platforms
to teach ESP to Saudi students at the university level. The experiment
established several findings of interest which led to the conclusion that
ubiquitous digital platform such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp
do have a revelatory potential to ameliorate academic and professional
learning.
The roles of English within and between many of he countries which
make up Southeast Asia are increasing and English is constantly
being used as negotiated as a mutual means of communication by
Asian multilinguals for whom English is an additional language. It is
timely, therefore, to consider ways in which these Englishes have
been developing, along with the roles English is currently playing.
Areas worthy of investigation include the influence of language
contact and the motivations for the presence of non-standard forms in
these new varieties of English. Given the recent research reviewed in
this paper, the criteria by which the use of non-standard forms is
classified as characteristics of the particular variety need to be
revised. The paper will conclude by considering whether the role of
English as a lingua franca in the region has reached its zenith and
whether the regional language education policy will likely allow the
languages of Asia to thrive.
One of the ways to locate the thesis statement is to pay
attention to signal phrases such as “This study
examines…”, “This paper aims to…”, “This paper
begins with…”, “In this paper, I hope to…”, “The
primary objective of this paper is to…”, “The purpose
of this essay is to…”, etc.

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