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Your thesis isn’t supported by your essay. You do have a thesis, but the body of your essay supports another
(perhaps similar) idea. This often happens when writers discover, through the drafting process, that they feel
differently about their topic than they originally thought. As a result, they end up building a case for a differ-
ent thesis. If your essay does indeed support an idea that’s different from your thesis (and that idea still
addresses the assignment), the easiest way to correct the problem is to rewrite your thesis to fit your essay.
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