First draft of position paper

Our third tutorial with Mr Omid today was discussion of the thesis statement from our course mates. He has called out plenty of course mates to write their thesis statement on the board and later we discussed together whether the thesis statement is suitable or can be improved.

I think this activity actually helped us to identify the central idea of the thesis statement wrote on the board by the course mates. It has inspired me on the issues that are to be discussed regarding the thesis statement written. Mr Omid has pointed out a very useful tips that we should not look at the text from just one perspectives, which is likely to "top down" model. however, we should have examined the text from different views and conclude as a whole so as to produce a good thesis statement, which is very similar to "bottom up" model.

Later, he also provided two samples of outlining the draft of the position paper because we thought that it can be done in "point form" or "notes form" and we just prepare a brief outline of the draft. Somehow or rather, I think that we still need a lot of knowledge about preparing a position paper and I am think ing of borrowing some reference books from the library later.