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[colten]

I'm not sure if this is right or not...

Research question: "How do electronics affect everyday lives?"

My thesis statement: "Electronics are part of the strategies that marketing giants use to influence the consumers to believe that it is "trendy" to have the latest gadgets; thus making them believe that they are essential to life."

I think that I'm sort of veering off topic.
Help? Thanks.

[beacher]

You *are* veering off-topic.

Anytime you have a simple sentence like this, you first need to define each important noun and verb, or you will wander off into the emotional and get away from the logical thesis.

From Webster's: elec·tron·ics
noun pl \i-?lek-?trä-niks\
Definition of ELECTRONICS
1
singular in construction : a branch of physics that deals with the emission, behavior, and effects of electrons (as in electron tubes and transistors) and with electronic devices
2
: electronic components, devices, or equipment
First Known Use of ELECTRONICS
1910


Definition of EVERYDAY
: encountered or used routinely or typically : ordinary <everyday clothes>


So you first need to define electronics components, and equipment that have been used routinely since 1910 to affect (change, improve, destroy) everyday lives. Personally, I think that 1910 date is wrong. There is a lot of argument over what defines the first "electronics", but I think it was when someone first harnessed electrical power and made it do something specific.

From WikiAnswers: "Communication, the first of the great uses for electricity, began with the telegraph invented by Samuel Morse around 1840, to be followed by the telephone, radio and television. Thomas Edison added lighting in 1880, which was soon followed by working electric motors and electric heating. Most recently has come electronics and the computer revolution. In all electricity has fundamentally transformed the way we live.:

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_was_electricity_first_used#ixzz1fnsmg2zD

And even this is open to question, because Chinese military commanders were using compasses (which are eloctromagnetically charged) during the Han Dynasty.


NOW write your thesis statement. It's a huge arena of topics! :)