6.2 The thesis statement
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the form of a problem that you attempt to solve in your research, in which case the thesis statement is a statement of solution to the problem.
How to Write a Dissertation In English
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6.1 Introduction 6.2 The thesis statement 6.3 The research question 6.4 The research method 6.5 Summary 6.6 Exercises
6.2 The thesis statement
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statement may change; it can be modified in one way or another because you may find, at a later stage, that your research topic needs to be narrowed down or broadened.
Usually the research topic can be stated as a question or as a hypothesis, and the choice between the two depends on the nature of the subject area. Stating the research topic as a question often helps to stimulate exploratory research, while formulating a topic as a hypothesis suggests that the research focus is on a tentative explanation or argument that your research attempts to test. With our proposed research topic of the verb forms in the as if clause, we can have either a question or a hypothesis. Let us look at the question first: