EXERCISE 53–1 Thesis statements in MLA papers
Example:
  • image Although Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King, Jr., agreed that integration was a central goal of the civil rights movement, they did not see eye-to-eye on methods of achieving it.
  • image Civil rights leaders Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King, Jr., were similar in many ways, but they had their differences too.
  • The first sentence expresses a focused idea that can be developed in a paper. The other sentence is too vague to be an effective thesis.