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Welcome to the Sophia First Year Writing Class blog on Jane Eyre! This is our private little corner of the internet, where we can discuss the novel, the background, and our ideas for writing a term paper. When you get here, please post your work on the sturcture of an academic paper as soon as it is ready, preferably by the end of today's class! Here's what you need to do:

Find an academic paper about Jane Eyre and search for the thesis in that paper. The thesis is usually one sentence. It is usually given somewhere in the first part of the paper (the first paragraph if it is a short paper).

When you find it, give a correct reference for the paper, and copy out the thesis statement.

Usually, before giving the thesis, an academic paper gives necessary background. Is this true in the case of your paper? What information is given? Why is it "necessary" do you think?

Usually, the title of a paper gives three pieces of information. Often, these are the topic of the paper, the title of the book and the author. Is this true in your paper?

Sometimes (often after the thesis statement) an academic paper gives supporting arguments for the thesis. Is this true in your case? What are the arguments?

Try to post all of this information (or as much of it as possible) here.

 
AFTER YOU HAVE POSTED YOUR OWN INFORMATION:

Read other people's posts, crosscheck the information by finding the paper they have commented on and post your comments (do you agree/disagree with their analysis of the paper?). Try to comment on five posts.