Basic Templates to Build On

• 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