Brainstorming my paper - an Odyssey

I decided to basically post my thought process as I'm brainstorming for my paper that's due (By the time you read this) today. I'm going to go through how I come up with ideas, and hopefully it'll stay coherent and not turn into a stream-of-consciousness kind of thing (though that might be fun to write sometime).

So, as you might remember, though if you don't I absolutely do not blame you, cause I personally don't remember half of y'all's topics, my topic is typography, which I defined in this post in case you want a short refresher course :)

Anyway: my contention for my paper will be that typography, at least the types that are used in professional endeavors, have gradually become more functional and less decorative. I think this is a pretty universal change.

In fact, "The Book," which I also mentioned in my bibliography post, contends that this change began long ago: With (funnily enough) the Egyptians! Turns out this actually connects to my culture assignment from earlier in the semester.

Anyway, I looked at the Better Thesis Statements website, and it told me (Well... not in audible words. I learned from it, I mean) that my thesis is a "definition claim", which means that I'm just trying to prove the reality of something. In my case, the change. So, to support it, I just need to show evidence of the change, not argue that it was good or bad.

So, I guess that's about all I have in the way of brainstorming right now! Thanks for bearing with me through this post, and please comment with any suggestions you have for format, etc.

PS: There's a double meaning in the word types that is starting to confuse me as I work on this paper

Just as a rambling linguistic side note, I believe that we say there are different "types" of things because there were originally different "types" in printing. Cool, huh?