Showing posts with label essay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label essay. Show all posts

Sunday, December 01, 2013

Fact and Example of Thesis Statement

A thesis statement is logic arguments. It makes analysis and it is arguable. Thesis statement IS NOT main idea in paragraph. It reflects the arguments you are making about your main idea in a clear one or two sentences. Here are facts and examples of thesis statement.

Fact
  • A fact (or observation) is not thesis statement 
  • A strong thesis just have ONE main point, no more. 
  • A strong thesis is arguable from evidence
  • A good thesis can be expressed in two sentences 

Example:
  • "Ernest Hemingway is one of my favorite authors." Not a thesis statement. No one could have an alternative opinion about this; if you say he's your favorite author, then he is. 
  • "The music of Pink Floyd was the most important influence on American pop music in the 1980s." This is a strong thesis that could be argued with evidence.
  • "Eating organic food is good for your health and helps the farming economy, too." The problem with this one is that it focuses on two main points, not one, as required by a strong thesis.

Monday, October 28, 2013

The Future of Internet

The next 20 years, by 2033, there might be more than 80 billion devices connected to the Internet [1]. In this post I proposed three key points that will change the internet technology from the current era.


The openness

The open source technology was well developed and impressively increased in quantity of products, apps and platforms. There is also a growth in open hardware technology. The giant in IT market like Google has released its Android to the community so they can contribute more. Other companies such as IBM, Redhat, and Canonical have invested in open source technology. Mozilla Firefox as the most used web-browser is also an open source technology succeeded the Netscape browser [2]. The current trend also shows significant increment on the use of opensource licence like MIT and GPL for public software. Choose the free and opensource license if you want to contribute to the future of the internet. Here is the guideline.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Blogging Style: 3p + 1i

Reading Jono Bacon's post in his blog about three point blogging, I am totally agree with this idea. He argued by keeping our writing shortly, it will keep our readers read our article completely. However I proposed minimally one picture as supporting media in our post to gain the readers and I have my own definition with 3 point blogging. So, I call it 3p + 1i. The three points are introduction, main content and conclusion plus one supporting image.

Layout of blogging post with 3p + 1i