How do you know when you have found a text's explicit thesis statement?
A.
If you have read the whole work, summarized it in a sentence or two, looked for nearly matching sentences in the text, and found a match.
B.
If you have read the whole work, summarized it, looked for nearly matching sentences in the text, and haven't found a sentence that sums up the whole text.
C.
If you have read the sentence at the top of each paragraph and found a match to another text