Thread: hey I'm a really bad writter so will someone tell me....

I don't know if this is in the wrong section(I'm a noob) but will someone tell me what a Thesis is?What is an Essay as well?

Originally Posted by cooldudemanus

I don't know if this is in the wrong section(I'm a noob) but will someone tell me what a Thesis is?What is an Essay as well?

Here's what the dictionary says about it...

thesis |???sis| noun ( pl. -ses |-s?z|) 1 a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved : his central thesis is that psychological life is not part of the material world. • (in Hegelian philosophy) a proposition forming the first stage in the process of dialectical reasoning. Compare with antithesis , synthesis . 2 a long essay or dissertation involving personal research, written by a candidate for a college degree : a doctoral thesis. 3 Prosody an unstressed syllable or part of a metrical foot in Greek or Latin verse. Often contrasted with arsis . ORIGIN late Middle English (sense 3) : via late Latin from Greek, literally ‘placing, a proposition,’ from the root of tithenai ‘to place.’

essay noun |?es?| 1 a short piece of writing on a particular subject. 2 formal an attempt or effort : a misjudged essay. • a trial design of a postage stamp yet to be accepted. verb |e?s?| [ trans. ] formal attempt or try : essay a smile. ORIGIN late 15th cent.(as a verb in the sense [test the quality of] ): alteration of assay , by association with Old French essayer, based on late Latin exagium ‘weighing,’ from the base of exigere ‘ascertain, weigh’ ; the noun (late 16th cent.) is from Old French essai ‘trial.’

My take: an essay is a short piece of work that simply deals with a particular subject, whereas a thesis is more than just writing about something, it's analyzing it and perhaps suggesting ways to repair or improve any problems with the subject of the thesis.

cooldude... if you google, you can find out anything you need to know a lot faster than asking here...

We're a writing forum. Therefore, people ask us questions about writing.

i know that, lj... and i wasn't saying to google ONLY and to not ask ANYthing here...

but, in this case, to find out what a thesis and an essay is, googling or looking them up in a dictionary would be 'faster'...

notice i did not say 'better'...

I notice no one made the obvious joke about the subject line's spelling...
I sure won't be the first, this time.

saw it right off, but i was doing my best to not be 'ruthless' ilan!

He's probably being ironic. Run, we're being mocked!