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The Evolving Thesis in Essay 3 The complications that you encounter are an opportunity to make your thesis evolve (which will make your thesis and analysis stronger). 1. Formulate an idea about your subject (a working thesis). 2. See how far you can make this thesis go in accounting for confirming evidence. 3. Locate evidence that is not adequately accounted for in the thesis. 4. Make explicit the apparent mismatch between the thesis and the selected evidence, asking and answering “so what?” 5. Reshape your claim to accommodate the evidence that hasn’t fit. 6. Repeat steps 2 through 5 several times.

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Confirming Evidence:

Complicating Evidence (primary or secondary):

Thesis 2.0:

Confirming Evidence: All prior confirming and complicating evidence. Complicating Evidence (primary or secondary):

Thesis 3.0:

Confirming Evidence: All prior confirming and complicating evidence Complicating Evidence (primary or secondary):

Thesis 4.0:

Confirming Evidence: All prior confirming and complicating evidence Complicating Evidence (primary or secondary):

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Confirming Evidence: All prior confirming and li ti

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Complicating Evidence (primary or secondary):

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Confirming Evidence: All prior confirming and complicating evidence....