Information Literacy Resources

Learning Objectives:

• Researchers will know how to create a main claim, or thesis, that is debatable and provable.
• Researchers will understand how to narrow their thesis statement so that it’s hard to refute
• Researchers will know how to acknowledge and address counterarguments in their thesis statement
• Researchers will understand how to use their thesis statement to forecast their argument’s organization

Video Playlist Includes:

• Thesis statements as debatable claims (2:01)
• Provable (1:51)
• Difficult to refute (2:00)
• Addresses competing claims (1:50)
• Educates readers (0:52)
• The mechanics of writing a good thesis statement (1:44)
• Relevance test (1:00)