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THIS CHAPTER explains the difference between claims of fact and claims of persuasion. You will learn how to write an effective thesis statement and integrate it into a powerful introduction. Then you will learn how to select information and present it to win your audience to your side. | CHAPTER FOUR Thesis Statements and Effective Research THIS CHAPTER explains the difference between claims of fact and claims of persuasion. You will learn how to write an effective thesis statement and integrate it into a powerful introduction. Then you will learn how to select information and present it to win your audience to your side. For example writing for information follows from a claim of fact. The following statements are claims of fact as presented by the Environmental Protection Agency 1. Each person generates more than four pounds of garbage each day of his or her life. 2. In America 1 500 aluminum cans are recycled every second. 3. Eighty-five percent of our garbage is sent to the landfill where it can take from 100-400 years for things like cloth and aluminum to decompose. 35 Thesis Statements and Effective Research EXPRESS YOURSELF 4. Americans receive almost four million tons of junk mail a year. 5. Americans throw away the equivalent of more than 30 million trees in newsprint each year. The above statements are facts. They represent information about the topic Pollution. You can write a term paper about pollution and use these five pieces as major points of information to support a thesis statement such as American consumption is environmentally hazardous because we are destroying our forests wasting our water and polluting our air. But if you were to write a persuasive paper to argue that not only is consumption hazardous but that it also must be reduced then your statements of facts would be used to support a thesis that says that something should be done about that consumption that is it should be reduced. You are taking a position about your subject and you would be attempting to convince your audience that you are right. A thesis statement would read American consumption is environmentally hazardous and we should reduce reuse and recy- cle our trash or we will destroy our environment. The difference between the two thesis statements should be

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