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This 3 page paper critiques an article about Mormon settlements in southern Nevada. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_HVSouNev.rtf
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thereof); evidence the author provides to support the thesis; an evaluation of the paper including its relevance to present-day problems; and whether or not the reader agrees with the authors
position. The first thing a student should do with any work is find the thesis statement, which is customarily the last sentence of the first paragraph. (For example, this paper
has no thesis statement, just a list of the questions well consider. Most such statements contain wording like "this paper argues ..." or "this paper seeks to establish ..." or
something similar. The purpose of the statement is to tell the reader what the author is going to prove; the rest of the article then systematically presents information that backs
up the authors contention.) The article about the Mormon settlements has no thesis statement. Instead, it appears to be a narrative account of the settlers and the difficulties they
encountered settling in Utah: they had problems with the tribes; settlements failed; and finally the state of Nevada annexed some of the settlements over the wishes of the Mormons. The
author gives a broad overview of life in the various settlements so that the reader gains a general understanding of the situation, but it never becomes personal. Since the author
doesnt present a thesis, its impossible to tell whether or not hes supported it. He has provided a lot of information but thats not the same thing. The student should
understand that saying something about arguments with the Indians is not the same as proving that (for example) these disagreements were a cause of an Indian uprising. To prove a
thesis, an author has to tie things together and show how they all support the main idea. This author hasnt done that, and although the "snapshot" of the communities is
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