Because my work experience has led me down many interesting paths and continues to offer me new learning opportunities, I have delayed pursuing my dream of an advanced degree. In the last year, however, it has become more apparent that if I want to continue to progress in my career over the next fifteen to twenty years, I must now enter graduate school. I enjoy the challenges that accounting offers, but accountants are stereotyped as individuals who can not think outside of the proverbial box. While this perception is not accurate, the company where I am currently employed vigorously seeks MBAs to fill vice-president and top executive slots. Since I know that I have both the experience and the aptitude to take on the responsibilities of one of these top leadership positions, I am willing and deeply excited to enter the Florida MBA program.
Themes are sets of conceptually related words.
Sequences of themes that run through a paragraph are thematic strings. Some words in a topic string may crop up in a thematic string and vice versa. Together, topic and thematic strings make up the conceptual structure of a paragraph, the frame within which you develop new ideas. Topic strings focus your readers' attention on what a passage is globally about. Thematic strings give your readers a sense that you are focusing on a core of ideas related to those topics.