In work, author verb focus to verb topic, topic, and topic.
In Moby Dick, Melville illustrates the nature of obsessive revenge to emphasize how it causes self-destruction, affects the fate of others, and creates inferior leadership.
To highlight focus, author's work uses evidence 1, evidence 2, evidence 3.
To highlight the dangers of pesticides with creative nonfiction, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring uses detailed descriptions of the morbid health effects of DDT on insects, birds, mammals, fish, and humans.
Despite contrasting focus, author/work verb main focus significantly/arguably/creatively/etc. evidence 1, evidence 2, evidence 3
Despite little critical success at first, Russell Mulcahy's Highlander has found significantly newfound success as a cult classic through its beloved pulpy plot, smooth cinematography, and bombastic action scenes.
Short List of Verbs for Your Thesis Short List of Adverbs for Your Thesis
states (do not overuse) summarizes creatively increasingly
highlights illustrates vividly notably
emphasizes stresses mildly generally
reconciles hypothesizes/theorizes thoroughly continuously
disputes conflates arguably frequently
maintains confronts initially explicitly
asserts proposes considerably namely
enumerates posits conversely primarily
acknowledges exposes relatively virtually
supplements persuades implicatively consequently
suggests synthesizes predictably evidently