Practice 11: Writing strong thesis statements.

TOPIC 1: Government surveillance

• It violates an individual’s privacy.

• It can be used for malicious purposes.

• It heavily relies on profiling.

    Heavy government surveillance would be harmful since it violates citizens’ privacy, it relies too much on profiling and it can be used for malicious purposes.

TOPIC 2: Gun ownership

• It makes it easier for terrorist attacks to occur.

• It normalises violence.

• A gun’s only purpose is to kill people.

    Gun ownership should not be a public privilege because of the possibility of terrorist attack, the normalization of violence and because a gun’s only purpose is to kill.

TOPIC 3: Globalization

• It promotes healthy cooperation between nations.

• It can be charitable.

• It makes scientific advances faster.

    Globalization is essential nowadays because it promotes healthy cooperation between nations, it makes scientific advances faster and it can be charitable.

TOPIC 4: Changing your name

• It lets people disassociate themselves from their old name.

• It lets people start over a new life.

• It helps transgender people reaffirm who they really are.

    Being able to change one’s name is essential to allow people to determine their own identities, be it to disassociate themselves from their old name, to start a new life, or to reaffirm who they really are.