My Thesis Statement Report

The information I have learned this year in English class has helped improve my writing skills in all of my classes, not just this one. Specifically, I was able to take the information I learned in english and apply it to essay’s I had to write for my psychology class. It especially helped me remember several smaller details to include and look for in my writing that are easily overlooked. These details include using effective transitions, creating a flowing order, and having a clear thesis statement. By applying information I learned in this English class to an essay I had to write in my psychology class, I was able to write a clear thesis statement, use effective transitions, and order my text structure.
To begin with, I use to always write super long thesis statements in my essay’s because I couldn’t figure out how to condense the information down. Therefore, my thesis statement’s where kind of all over the place, it was hard to understand what point I was trying to make, and they were just overall very unclear. After learning that a thesis statement should clearly state the purpose for the paper, my writing improved a lot. In the psychology paper I wrote, I was able to apply what I learned and create an effective thesis statement …show more content…

This improved my writing a lot because I was able to connect new ideas in a coherent manner. Without using transitions, new paragraphs wouldn’t smoothly connect to the previous topic. In my psychology essay, I used multiple transitional phrases to create the most effective flow. For example, I used the phrase, “On the other hand,” to transition from talking about the differences in anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia. Learning how to use effective transitions in my writing has helped me in many ways, because I used to really struggle with connecting new ideas throughout my