Boxes and Bullets:

Framing Essays

Choose a seed idea and write it as a thesis:

• Bikes are fun because you can do tricks on them

• Bikes are fun because you can go places on them
• Bikes are fun because you can fix them when they are broken

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• Two-wheeler bikes are fun.
• Tricycles are fun.
• Bicycles built for two are fun.
• And most of all dirt bikes are fun.

• Working with our first grade buddies is fun because we get to teach them to read.
• Working with our first grade buddies is really fun because we get to read really cool books.
• Working with our first grade reading buddies is also fun because they look up to us.

Find Support for Your Thesis:

• Keep adding bullets...
• more ideas
• more ideas
• more thoughts
• some research about your topic
• some more ideas
• talk to people about your ideas
• more bullets
• more thoughst
• etc.

Outgrow A First Thesis