【正文】 t cite the source of the information. ? Goals : ? Learn to analyze your information and anize your ideas to work out a thesis statement for your paper. ? Learn to write an outline for your paper Unit 3 Analyzing the Information , Organizing Ideas ,Working Out an Outline 1. The thesis statement ? The thesis statement is the central idea of your research paper. The thesis Statement is usually a single sentence that expresses the main point of view on your topic. ? In your thesis statement, you should only state the central idea of your paper. Words like I intend tos life is ruined by his preoccupation with his cruel search, and he bees a morally degraded monomaniac. Hester wishes her lover to flee with her to Europe, but he refuses the plan as a temptation from the Evil One, and makes a public confession on the pillory in which Hester had once been placed. He dies there in her arms, a man broken by his concealed guilt, but Hester lives on, triumphant over her sin because she openly confessed it, to devote herself to assuring a happy life in Europe for Pearl, and helping others in misfortune. 4) The present tense should also be used for your ments on the content of a book or the language and style of an author. ? Sample 4 ? Saul Bellow is regarded by many as probably the most important living American novelist. Seize the Day is considered to be Bellow39。 elicitation method of teaching and that of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude are still applicable to China39。 2) Reading and thinking。 the information, anizing ideas, and working out an outline。 should not appear in your thesis statement. Sample ? Topic: Confucius39。s greatest achievement, and one of the great short novels written by an American. 5) When you quote from an authority, the reporting verb can also be in the present tense. ? Sample 5 ? Sinclair Lewis (1885─ 1951), the first American Nobel Prize winner for literature says that Dreiser... more than any other man, marching alone, usually unappreciated, often hated, has cleared the trail from Victorian and Howellsian timidity and gentility in the American fiction to honesty, boldness and passion of life. 3. Uniting facts and views ? a good paper is marked by the unity of facts and views. Your pa