As far as learning how to build a preliminary thesis statement in LWPC is concerned, the primary objective to be accomplished is to have the entire statement constructed in just one sentence with a non-compound sentence structure.
Being able to write a thesis statement in just one simple-structured sentence is crucial to the clarity of the statement as well as the writer’s mind about the research. It is possible that there are some rare cases in which the central idea of a paper cannot be summarized into just one sentence. But normally, if the writer is very clear about his or her research, he or she should be able to identify the key components and summarize them into just one sentence. Such process of summarization, by eliminating a large chunk of information that is not considered as vital, would enable the writer to focus on the components that are vital to forming the paper’s central idea.
However, merely summarizing the idea into one sentence is not enough for the clarity. The sentence must be simple in terms of its sentential structure so that the relation between the sentence components can be clearly understood. This part of the clarification process is very important because the relation being depicted in the statement is the core of the statement. Besides knowing the key components of the central idea, ultimately people want to know how the components are related together.
In addition to being clear, there are other conditions for the sentence to meet in order to be a satisfactory thesis statement. Essentially, what the statement expresses must be objectively verifiable. The objective verifiability here means verifiability from a third-person point of view, independent from the point of view of a writer. Making the statement objectively verifiable is vital for an effective communication with the readers. If a thesis statement expressed something that could hardly be verified independently from a third-person point of view, then the expressed would not be effectively communicated to its reader.
For example, it would not be very effective to communicate the meaning of the sentence, “this painting is beautiful’’, as the term,