The following are all ways to use a thesis statement except:

A thesis statement presents the central idea of a speech and can guide how you organize it, introduce its main ideas, and recap them in the conclusion. It does not itself provide evidence or reasoning to support those ideas; that support comes from the speech’s examples and details. Therefore, the exception is “use a thesis statement to help you support the main ideas of your speech.”

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