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Testing your thesis.

Testing your thesis. Although writing out an explicit thesis will often confirm your research, you may find that your hypothesis is invalid, inadequately supported, or insufficiently focused. In such cases, you will need to rethink your original research question and perhaps do further research. To test your thesis, consider the following questions:

How can you state your thesis more precisely or more clearly (5b)? Should the wording be more specific?
In what ways will your thesis interest your audience? What can you do to increase that interest?
Will your thesis be manageable, given your limits of time and knowledge? If not, what can you do to make it more manageable?
What evidence from your research supports each aspect of your thesis? What additional evidence do you need?