See: Academic Argument: Evidence-based Defense of a Non-obvious Position
Academic Journals
Every fact is cited. Articles are approved via expert peer review.
My Paper is Too Short!
5 Tips for Serious Students (and 9 dumb tricks that won’t work)
Similar:
NYC sent non-police teams to respond to mental health calls for a month. Data shows that m...
Remember that meme that shows two cops s...
Culture
So Why Do People Shrug? Researchers Say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
While contemplating what sort of body la...
Culture
Technology won’t fix America’s neediest schools. It makes bad education worse.
[N]o matter how good the design, and des...
Academia
The Girl Wins the Upper Division Monologue in the 25th Annual Pittsburgh Public Theatre's ...
Culture
Text Messaging Declines in U.S. for First Time, Report Says
I don't text message much. As my kids (a...
Cyberculture
All Sheep Matter
Culture
is a thesis statement a statement of facts that soon will develop in the body of the essay?
I don’t usually assign writing tasks where the author’s job is simply to state a fact.
This page is about taking a side and demonstrating why the evidence supports your side more than your opponent’s side. In order for it to be a thesis there has to be a reasonable antithesis — an opposing view, that a reasonable person who looked at the same issue might actually take, with at least some credible evidence in favor of that position. If there were just one obviously correct factual answer there would be nothing to debate. But if your writing task is simply to state facts and defend them, I’d say what you have described is a topic, not a thesis. But I won’t be marking your paper, so my opinion only matters so much.