thesis statement, usually appears in the introductory paragraph of a paper, signposting, using phrases and words to guide the reader through the content of your essay/dissertation, academic spoken genres, lectures, tutorials, defences, literary genres, poetry, drama, folklore, EOP, learners are likely to be adults, workers, EAP, students are usually higher education students, EGP, It is studied for exam purposes, stance, author's opinion, position, topic sentence, it states the main idea within a paragraph, explicit thesis, directly states the writer’s main idea/position and provides a clear direction for the essay, implied thesis, it is not directly stated, but rather suggested through the writer’s ideas, Just as…, so too…, similarity signposting phrases.

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