Author Topic: how can you keep bias out of an essay?  (Read 968 times)

like, this is the most complicated stuff i've ever done. i'm just on the thesis, and my teacher just keeps telling me to write it again because it has bias in it. i've re-written it like maybe 8 times already. sometimes i wonder how i'm going to do in college because i hear you have to do a lot of essays. help would be appreciated. \

the topic is about how parents and peers relate to decision making.
« Last Edit: May 02, 2015, 11:04:50 PM by hillkill »

Don't put in any opinions. Only facts. What's the essay over?

the topic is about how parents and peers relate to decision making.
is there a way this CAN'T include bias

Don't put in any opinions. Only facts. What's the essay over?

read the bottom part of op. also, i'm not putting any opinions, she's judging every little word i write.



i can't the teacher takes our papers at the end of class to look them over.

What kind of decisions are we talking about?

This is sounding like more of a research paper than an essay if the teacher isn't wanting bias included
You can still PM the thesis statement, the plagiarism checkers aren't going to find that.

"Parents and peers can affect decision-making in both positive and negative ways because of X reason, Y reason, and Z reason."

Basic stuffty thesis, unbiased. You'll have a hard time writing the paper imo because the topic kinda requires bias. It's hard to gather hard facts and statistics about an opinion.

Yea three prongs is usually the best way to go about it. How long does the essay have to be?

the thesis was something along the lines of, "parents and peers both affect the decisions of people in fields such as advice and wisdom." i don't understand how that's biased.

have you actually asked your teacher how to improve it? we don't really have much a reference point on their expectations so

this topic should be pretty easy to approach objectively if you just speak objectively

like what's the general idea of what you're doing currently? to me, as long as you don't make the statement personal, it's actually more difficult to make a thesis which makes a strong, biased claim for argumentative purposes

the thesis was something along the lines of, "parents and peers both affect the decisions of people in fields such as advice and wisdom." i don't understand how that's biased.
i don't see how it is either. perhaps a better way to word it would be something like "two ways in which parents and peers affect people's decisions are by providing advice and wisdom," which concedes an incomplete explanation. if you haven't already, just speak to your teacher about their expectations with this cus that's a bit ridiculous. i understand when english teachers try and be strict like that, but if you don't understand what they actually want, that's a problem

the thesis was something along the lines of, "parents and peers both affect the decisions of people in fields such as advice and wisdom." i don't understand how that's biased.
maybe just insert some words implying the possibility that can happen, such as can, or may.

i've talked to the teacher numerous times and she wants us to figure it out by ourselves because "that's how you get things done in life". my teacher's logic is so forgeted.