Is Your Thesis Evolving?

The idea that obviously stood out the most in the reading is that a thesis should evolve. This point is restated throughout the reading. I agree with this idea, I feel like in high school teachers often asked you to write a thesis before anything else, and writing a thesis first often made me feel like it had to stay the same the whole time. So the idea that the thesis statement should change as the paper evolves is really helpful to me. Some other ideas that stood out was the fact that a thesis should have evidence that disproves it, as much as it had evidence that proves it. This makes you have to defend your evidence stronger than if there is no conflicting evidence. 

My writing is pretty similar to the student drafts. I usually write down what I see as the  most important evidence. Then I take this evidence to write a rough thesis statement. I then try to evolve my evidence into ideas that are not obvious, much like the student draft. Most of the time though, I have trouble evolving my evidence and begin to support my thesis with obvious reasons. I need to focus more on the complex evidence and reasoning rather than the obvious. I also need to work on evolving my thesis more. The rough thesis I usually write usually doesn't change much because I feel like it will change the meaning of my whole paper.