Sample Project thesis: Topic: Smoking Claim/thesis: Selling cigarettes should be illegal. Reason 1: It causes severe health effects to the smoker, including death. Reason 2: It negatively effects bystanders. Reason 3: Cigarettes/Nicotine can be a gateway drug. Selling cigarettes should be illegal because it causes severe health effects for the smoker, it negatively affects bystanders, and the nicotine in cigarettes can be a gateway to other drug use.

Your engaging HOOK goes here. Choose 1 of the 7 hook strategies we learned about on Friday. Include any other pertinent background information to your topic. Your thesis will be the last sentence of your introduction paragraph. Your thesis = your claim statement + your 3 reasons.