Material for Friday

Dear All,
Sorry for not able to teach you this Friday (13/04/07)
Here is material to be studied.

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What is a thesis statement?

The MOST IMPORTANT SENTENCE in your paper
Lets the reader know the main idea of the paper
Answers the question: What am I trying to “prove?”
Not a factual statement, but a claim that has to be “proven” throughout the paper

Role of the thesis statement
The thesis statement should guide your reader through your argument.
The thesis statement is generally located in the introduction of the paper.
A thesis statement may also be located within the body of the paper or in the conclusion, depending upon the purpose of the paper.

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Sample of the bad 1st paragraph

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•i disagree with this statement. television is media for people to get anything around them. television help us to entertain ourself, give us more information, and everything that happened around us. watching tv help us to know what's in and what's out. we will see anything around the world and it will increase our knowledge. when we feel bored with our activities we can watching tv, at least it will help us to rest and forget our troubles. television is a good media for us to lose our stress. we can watching tv together with our family and discuss about news or program in television. some people believe that television can destroy or dangerous, but for me its depends on how we use television as good as possible. we can prevent negative effects from television by choosing a good program that deserve to watch, educate us and give us benefits. prevent the programs that contents violence. porn, and less education.
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another sample of bad 1st paragraph

•I disagree with that opinion. Because I think it depends on the character of individual. We have to manage our time by allocating time to watch television just in our spare time. Television can give us many benefits. However, watching television shouldn’t let us to waste our time, or to miss our responsibility. We don’t need too much time in front of television if we want to get information about anything happen around us. We can get the information by watching the news morning or night in 0,5 - 1,5 hours. Or if we want to be entertained, we can watch movie or reality show which duration is 1-1,5 hours. It is about how we use TV as and how we control ourselves by managing our time. So, we can do our job and responsibility, we can take care our family, and we still can get the benefits of TV.

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Sample of good one.

•Family is the most important influence in everyone’s life, but television is not far behind. Television has become one of the most attractive media of entertainment and information. To a certain extent, Television can reduce one’s social sense in community and can lead to more aggressive and less physical activities. Though with those obvious negative images, I still believe that Television can gives us healthy, enjoyable, and educative experiences if we know how Television can affects us and how to ward it off.

Please go to www.lc.itb.ac.id/jati/e-learning and please click on the 'television button' and write your first paragraph. I will give you feed back and tell you what to do.