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 ## A thesis statement is original because you are the one who is saying it ##
-Many students feel that they cannot say anything ‘new’. They learned all this stuff from others scholars’ arguments, so how can they argue anything other than what their sources argued? Easy. It is a new idea, and a new claim, because you are the one who is arguing it, and not someone else. Your perspective and your thinking is your own, and is thus unique. You do have something new to say. You’ve been influenced by the arguments of others, sure, and you’ll cite them, but you will now explain what that means to you, and that’s never been done before. It’s your thesis statement.
+Many students feel that they cannot say anything ‘new’. They learned all this stuff from others scholars’ arguments, so how can they argue anything other than what their sources argued? Easy. It is a new idea, and a new claim, because you are the one who is arguing it, and not someone else. Your perspective and your thinking is your own, and is thus unique. You do have something new to say. You’ve been influenced by the arguments of others, sure, and you’ll cite them, but you will now explain what that means to you, and that’s never been done before. [[Building an argument|It’s your thesis statement]].
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