Thesis Drift Monitor: Warn Before The Thesis Breaks, Not After Prices Drop

Your thesis is the central claim in your essay—your main insight or idea about your source or topic. Your thesis should appear early in an academic essay, followed by a logically constructed argument that. When you write strong, clear paragraphs, you are guiding your readers through your argument by showing them how your points fit together to support your thesis.

The introduction to an academic essay will generally present an analytical question or problem and then offer an answer to that question (the thesis). Once you figure out what you want to argue—your essay’s thesis—your task in writing the essay will be to share with your readers the evidence you have considered and to explain how that evidence. The writing center sponsored harvard's first undergraduate three-minute thesis competition in april 2019.