On black death/bubonic plague: my research paper thesis

Cool website. Anyhow, I am stumped with this 7 page research paper. You'd think after all these years I wouldn't have this much trouble but I kind of ruined myself with the topic I chose.

My topic is on black death/bubonic plague. My thesis states how the black plague was a better event for European society than it was worse. Is this even a thesis? I've been suggested to go off on overpopulation but I do not know where to look for sources for that kind of argument. So far I've written about 3 pages about the positive effects of the plague but I don't really feel like I am arguing anything.

Anyone help me out??

Thanks

Hi! Welcome to EssayForum. I'm sorry it took so long to get a response, but I'm happy to say I have the answer. I tell people this all the time: Do not try to come up with a thesis before writing about some articles.

Get 5 articles. Write a paragraph about each. Read what you wrote, and search for the thesis. It's in there.

Do NOT pull a thesis out of the air and send yourself on a scavenger hunt for articles to support it. That is how my roommate argues. I HATE that. He'll say some unsubstantiated stuff and then look for a reason it is true. It might NOT be true! Overpopulation might have been controlled by something else if not the plague.

No... look into the readings for some truth that has... the ring of truth. Look for a truth that all your readings seem to support in one way or another. Toss the paint onto the canvas (paint = the ideas you get from the articles) and let an INTERESTING, ARGUABLE thesis take form on its own.

:-)