Let me guess. You’ve been waiting and waiting for an episode on Thesis Statements. You are in luck, because Paul Richgruber and Jocelyn Pihlaja met me at Mexico Lindo one night to talk about just that. Paul, a writer and history faculty, was really there to get some insight into how to help his students arrive at better theses. And the three of us? Well, we dig into:

1. Analogies from the real world to help students picture theses in different ways.

2. How students who are struggling with the concept can discover a thesis.

3. How a good title is the best friend of a good thesis, and why titles matter, too.

You may have noticed that the plural of thesis is, well, theses, which sounds strangely like things left by dogs on Duluth trails. Don’t let that sidetrack you. Watch your step, and listen in.