{"id":162,"date":"2016-12-31T03:58:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T03:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/enga102\/?page_id=162"},"modified":"2016-12-31T03:58:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T03:58:44","slug":"matching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/enga102\/learning-pathways\/building-strong-arguments\/matching\/","title":{"rendered":"Matching"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice WEquizMultipleChoice WEquizMix\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"assessment\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/enga102\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_qmark.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>What is academic writing?<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:302px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Good-1122969_1920.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/e\/e4\/Good-1122969_1920.jpg\/300px-Good-1122969_1920.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">Make a choice<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In this section you are going to further explore what makes up a thesis statement. Here is are some good and bad thesis statements. Choose the <i>good<\/i> or <i>bad<\/i> one based on the knowledge you have picked up in the last sections.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> This paper will address the characteristics of a good President or Prime Minister.\n<ul>\n<li> Good\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Incorrect<\/b>. The thesis makes no claim, a better thesis statement would be: The very traits that makes for an effective President or Prime Minister\u2014the drive to succeed and lead\u2014can also make the leader domineering and therefore ineffective.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> Bad\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Correct<\/b>. The thesis makes no claim, a better thesis statement would be: The very traits that makes for an effective President or Prime Minister\u2014the drive to succeed and lead\u2014can also make the leader domineering and therefore ineffective.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> Resistance to publishing in open access journals is largely driven by misconceptions about their quality and a desire to not rock the academic boat. This paper will look at this resistance and break down the misconceptions around the presumed quality of traditional journals.\n<ul>\n<li> Good\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Correct<\/b>.  This thesis statement looks at a specific part of an issue. A bad example, which would be obviously true or a statement of fact, would be something like &#8220;Open Access Journals are less popular with Academics than traditional journals.&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> Bad\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Incorrect<\/b>. This thesis statement looks at a specific part of an issue. A bad example, which would be obviously true or a statement of fact, would be something like &#8220;Open Access Journals are less popular with Academics than traditional journals.&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> Videogames are bad for children.\n<ul>\n<li> Good\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Incorrect<\/b>. This thesis restates conventional wisdom without adding any new thought or complexity. A solution would be to dig deeper into the content and make it more complex. So, a good example would be: There are differing views on whether violence in videogames influences children in a negative way. In this paper I will look at both sides of the argument and make the argument that there are no negative outcomes.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> Bad\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Correct<\/b>.  This thesis restates conventional wisdom without adding any new thought or complexity. A solution would be to dig deeper into the content and make it more complex. So, a good example would be: There are differing views on whether violence in videogames influences children in a negative way. In this paper I will look at both sides of the argument and make the argument that there are no negative outcomes.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> Citizen Kane is a film about a man and his love for a childhood toy.\n<ul>\n<li> Good\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Incorrect<\/b>. This thesis makes an overly broad claim, it has made an assertion that is broad enough to fit a wide range of films and thus says nothing in particular about the film at hand. Instead you could write: Citizen Kane is the story of a wealthy man who, despite his successes, has spent a life time longing for the simpler times of his youth, as embodied in his childhood sled.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> Bad\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Correct<\/b>. This thesis makes an overly broad claim, it has made an assertion that is broad enough to fit a wide range of films and thus says nothing in particular about the film at hand. Instead you could write: Citizen Kane is the story of a wealthy man who, despite his successes, has spent a life time longing for the simpler times of his youth, as embodied in his childhood sled.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Comment.gif\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Comment.gif\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/d\/db\/Comment.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"img-responsive\"><\/a>:<span style=\"color: green; background-color: #F6F9ED\"> There&#8217;s a problem with the bullet lists.<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.021 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.022 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 131\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 1126\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 17520\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 15039\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 9\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:180166-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20161230163908 and revision id 1021697\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/enga102\/learning-pathways\/building-strong-arguments\/video-signpost\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/enga102\/learning-pathways\/building-strong-arguments\/the-importance-of-key-words\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Previous Next \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":156,"menu_order":2700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/enga102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/enga102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/enga102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/enga102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/enga102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/enga102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/enga102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions\/163"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/enga102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/enga102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}