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The Bell Curve, Charles Murray & Richard Herrnstein FTP: Make Your Thesis Snap
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The Bell Curve, Charles Murray & Richard Herrnstein FTP: Make Your Thesis Snap

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Apr 10, 2025
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To the writers in my audience, here you’ll find a superb example of getting the snap out of your thesis. By snap, I’m picturing a whip snapping. The whip flies through the air and then that crack at the end.

I see this in writing as laying out your summary first. This involves the questions or hypothesis you perhaps started with, and then shaping that into a few concise sentences, and you write a thesis packed with conviction.

I’ll bold the thesis:

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