LESSON 2.20
Other Ways to Create a Hyperthesis
There are a couple other ways to bring a What Statement and a Why Statement together and thus create a hyperthesis.
Review
There are two main ways the attachment is made—
Two-Sentence Hyperthesis: Write a What Statement of one sentence. Then write a Why Statement of one sentence. The Why Statement will have a because toward the beginning of the sentence. For example:
What Statement. That occurs because …
What Statement. That is important because ….
What Statement. That is important to me because …
One-Sentence Hyperthesis: Write a What Statement of one sentence. Then write a Why Statement of one sentence. The Why Statement will have a because toward the beginning of the sentence. Then eliminate the words before the because. For example:
What Statement. That occurs because …
Rewritten: What Statement, because …
The one-sentence hyperthesis does not always work, because the why statement does not follow logically or because the Ys will already have been covered.
Literature and Art History Papers
We sometimes use in order to for connecting the What and the Why. That is especially true for literature and art history papers.
Edgar Allan Poe changed the Black Death to the Red Death in “The Masque of the Red Death” in order to write about plagues at a time when the South was plagued by Yellow Fever.
Leonardo da Vinci used the sfumato technique in the Mona Lisa in order to show the relationship of motherhood to the environment.
Essay Exams
We often connect the What Statement and the Why Statement by using a colon. That is especially true for essay exams.
There were three main causes the War of 1812: U.S. nationalism, British impressment policies, and ???
Small-Group Activity
Change the following hypertheses according to the type in parenthesis.
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Individual or Small-Group Activity
Complete the exercise: Belize