I supported my thesis with lit by reading through a few of my articles that had to do with my thesis. After reading each article I put the key points that supported my thesis into a word document. The information was then put into the designated sub point it supported.
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developing a thesis reflection
To develop my thesis I read through a few of my articles, and then narrowed the ideas down to key points. After this I took the key points and decided what I wanted my paper to be about. when I figured out what I wanted to write about I constructed a thesis based off of the key points.
lit for thesis
Thesis
Claim/Thesis:Rising sea surface temperatures are the main risk for coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef.
Subpoint:Vulnerability to climate change due to rising temperature (Sea surface temp.)
Subpoint:Rising sea surface temperatures.
Subpoint:Coral bleaching is the stress response of coral losing its photosynthetic pigments.
finding lit. on topic reflection
When finding my sources, I searched through the Longwood library online site looking for what causes coral bleaching. For each paper I found I would read the title and see if it was relevant to my topic of coral bleaching. I would also read the abstracts of each paper. The only problem I ran into was that their were papers that talked about how coral bleaching affected the assorted fish that lived in coral reefs. This is something I am not researching. All together it was pretty easy to find sources on coral bleaching because it is such a worldwide phenomenon, and there was a lot of information given in the abstracts of each paper I found.
Sources