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The process of writing a thesis statement comes before any actual part or stage when you begin to start writing your thesis, and what is required of you.

The thesis statement is a claim about your subject matter and what you intend on proving or disproving.  Many academic writers fail to understand the need for such a statement, which is often done unconsciously.

There are many different reasons why you need to provide a statement of what you are going to study: it is important to place your writing inspiration and knowledge and test it by breaking your writing into one or two sentences.  You will need this as a good grounding of what you want to achieve and will allow your supervisor to understand what it is you want to research; the statement will allow your reader a direction in your argument.  However, it would not be advisable to leave your reader bewildered and unaware of how your project will be progressing.

Whether you came up with your own topic of research or you were heavily steered towards it by your supervisor, will depend on whether or not the direction of your statement will be beneficial to you.  You may need to change the title of your statement into a question, and this question will be used as a baseline for a response, when you are conducting your research to the question and thus answers.

You should be writing with at least a basic knowledge in the back of your mind about your chosen subject and you will want to concentrate heavily on why you have chosen such a topic, with the underlining fact that it will be of benefit to the greater good of research and academia for its completion.

There are a few recognised points that mean a thesis statement meets the requirements for submission:

+ The statement must be able to reach and conclude a position when read on its own.

+ It must be based on a topic that current scholars would want to back and would also want to oppose.

+ The content should be specific and to the point, and this will be not only of benefit to the reader, but also help you manage the scope and boundaries of writing your research paper.

+ Your statement should emphasize and identify the most important ideas of what you want to establish and be referred to in the body of your writing.  Therefore, when you are writing sentences you should always review them, checking that they tie in with the overall argument.

+ A common mistake to avoid, which catches many students, is to never bring about a totally new topic within the actual statement that will not be mentioned in the main research - this means more emphasis on specific information and direction, as mentioned earlier.

One key element to remember to writing a great thesis statement is that you need to be specific in your writing, concentrate on one idea and ensure that you are planning for the project.