TentativeRevisedThesis

After using Tom March's Thesis Builder, I was able to develop a Thesis statement that would help me focus my research.

**High School Students Can Gain 21st Century Skills Through Developing Their Own E-Portfolios** > a Persuasive Thesis Statement on high school student e-portfolios: > Even though e-portfolios have been around for decades and were mainly used to just collect information, implementing a high school student interactive e-portfolio program with a constructionist model will help learners develop 21st century skills because students will become better evaluators of information and become better writers and using a constructionist e-portfolio model will help students to value their e-portfolios and increase their intrinsic motivation.

Revised Sample outline from Tom March's Thesis Builder website - using my thesis statement. Although this is a great tool to use with the writing process, I used this to help plan and develop my story board outline for my digital story telling project. Tom March's outline was easily adaptable to my needs and helped me stay organized.

Begin with an interesting quotation related to your opinion about high school student e-portfolios (You will need a transition here) - End the Intro paragraph with your thesis statement:
 * Introductory Paragraph **

Even though e-portfolios have been around for decades and were mainly used to just collect information, implementing a high school student interactive e-portfolio program with a constructionist model will help learners develop 21st century skills because students will become better evaluators of information and become better writers and using a constructivist e-portfolio model will help students to value their e-portfolios and increase their intrinsic motivation.

Topic of the body thesis: e-portfolios have been around for decades and were mainly used to just collect information
 * Body Paragraph #1 **

- Find evidence - like facts, examples, quotations, or statistics that back it upor support the topic sentence of this paragraph. - Explain how your evidence supports the topic sentence Another example that shows that e-portfolios have been around for decades and were mainly used to just collect information is... - Find more evidence - facts, examples, quotations, or statistics that back it up or support the topic sentence of this paragraph. - Explain how this second piece of evidence supports the topic sentence. Even though e-portfolios have been around for decades and were mainly used to just collect information, implementing a high school student interactive e-portfolio program with a constructionist model will help learners develop 21st century skills because students will become better evaluators of information and become better writers.
 * Body Paragraph #2 **

- Find evidence - like facts, examples, quotations, or statistics that back it upor support the topic sentence of this paragraph. - Explain how your evidence supports the topic sentence Another example that shows that students will become better evaluators of information and become better writers is... - Find more evidence - facts, examples, quotations, or statistics that back it up or support the topic sentence of this paragraph. - Explain how this second piece of evidence supports the topic sentence.

The most important reason implementing a high school student interactive e-portfolio program with a constructionist model will help learners develop 21st century skills is because using a constructivist e-portfolio model will help students to value their e-portfolios and increase their intrinsic motivation.
 * Body Paragraph #3 **

- Find evidence - like facts, examples, quotations, or statistics that back it upor support the topic sentence of this paragraph. - Explain how your evidence supports the topic sentence Another example that shows that using a constructivist e-portfolio model will help students to value their e-portfolios and increase their intrinsic motivation is... - Find more evidence - facts, examples, quotations, or statistics that back it up or support the topic sentence of this paragraph. - Explain how this second piece of evidence supports the topic sentence.

So you can see that although e-portfolios have been around for decades and were mainly used to just collect information, implementing a high school student interactive e-portfolio program with a constructionist model will help learners develop 21st century skills for two main reasons. First, students will become better evaluators of information and become better writers. But most importantly, using a constructivist e-portfolio model will help students to value their e-portfolios and increase their intrinsic motivation.
 * Conclusion **

- Now you will return to your opening attention-getter from the introduction - Then end your essay with a powerful //So What?// statement.