Always bring your main points and examples back to your thesis.
Example of straightforward report thesis (Thesis 1): The three main halls of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition were filled with modern creations of the day and were an excellent representation of the innovative spirit of the Progressive era.
For example, your thesis statement on inhumane treatment of animals might read: "Factory farming of pigs should be banned because it is cruel, torturous treatment of animals, and their living conditions can spread disease and contaminate the human food supply".
Let's say for example, your thesis is: "Odd-Z Transactinide Compound Nucleus Reactions Including the Discovery of 260Bh".
For example, your thesis question might be "how does cultural acceptance change the success of treatment for mental illness?" This can then determine what your thesis is - whatever your answer to the question is, is your thesis statement.
For example, your thesis may be about the similarity between 2 literary works.
Example: Your thesis might be that lab rats should not be used in painful experiments.
Girard was speaking of Cervantes, Proust, Dostoyevsky, Stendhal and Flaubert, but latter-day readers wanting a textbook example of his thesis need look no farther than Benjamin Markovits's "Imposture," a novel set in the cloying, preening, hothouse-flower climate surrounding Lord Byron, the greatest literary celebrity and enfant terrible of his time.
In that universe, indeed, one could imagine a columnist like Frum writing about the upside of Mitt Romney's Mormonism and hailing the contemporary L.D.S. approach to marriage as an example of his thesis, rather than a "worrisome" exception to the rule.
