06 How you find the thesis in documents you read

Whenever I read a document or article it can be hard to find the thesis. A good place to look is always the introduction because the writer usually gives a brief summary of what he's going to write about and why in the intro. A lot of the time writers will tend to put their thesis statement at the end of the introduction. But, its not always that easy. It usually helps to read over the entire document first, and while you're doing so think about why the author wrote this piece in the first place. What were his goals, what kind of message is he trying to get across to his readers? I find that when I read things, sometimes the author will be constantly talking about a particular thing or idea. Be careful! Just because someone is talking a lot about something throughout a document doesn't mean that this is the thesis. They could just be using a thought or idea to convey what their purpose of the paper actually is. Once you read through the document fully think back again to why the author wrote this in the first place. By this point you should be able to figure out what their thesis is.