The phrase "a central thesis of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the main argument or point of a piece of writing, such as an essay, article, or book.
Example: "The central thesis of the paper argues that climate change is primarily driven by human activity."
Alternatives: "a key argument of" or "a main point of".
In his review of "The New Russians" (Dec. 9), S. Frederick Starr seriously misrepresents a central thesis of my book.
The problem is that a central thesis of the inequality/mobility nexus is that skills alone won't crack it.
All of which is to hint at a central thesis of the book: that, as Martin Luther King said, all of us are "caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
In doing so, he ignores a central thesis of the demonstrators: Our political system is neither responsive to the middle class nor capable of rational action because it serves — almost exclusively — the interests of those who finance political campaigns.
A central thesis of this book is that, while the combination of these knowledge sources is more effective than any one used alone, these sources are, to some degree, independent.
A central thesis of his recent book "Bourbon Street" is that, in a city that makes a fetish of authenticity, it is Bourbon Street, reviled by many locals as a gauche vomitorium, that holds the prize for authenticity — it is unregulated, populist, popular, locally invented, and locally owned.
With all the fanfare surrounding the release, many people felt shortchanged by the lack of a central thesis to the three-minute pop song by an artist who had, in her previous work, spoken more clearly on issues such as finding love in a hopeless place and owning a useful rain protection apparatus.
With all the fanfare surrounding the release, many people felt shortchanged by the lack of a central thesis to the three minute pop song by an artist who had, in her previous work, spoken more clearly on issues such as finding love in a hopeless place and owning useful rain protection apparatus.
He regards the relationship between "objective" history and the subjective development of the individual consciousness ("spirit") as an intimate one; this is a central thesis in his Phenomenology of Spirit (1807).
Even the puerile stuff is put to work in the service of a central thesis, which is that there's no such thing as normal, and we're all teeming with repressed crazy impulses.
In other places there are consequential typographical errors, such as in the abstract on the back cover and within the statement of a central thesis in the final chapter (177).
