CHAPTER 5 LOCATING STATED MAIN IDEAS
Locating an author's main ideas is the key to understanding your reading. Seeing the relationship between the main idea and details will support the first distinguished general and specific ideas. The topic is the most general idea, also the most specific idea. The details are the most specific support and illustrate the main idea of your writing. Looking in the usual places, noticing clues, words and categorizing and authors point are four main strategies. You can use them to think about what you read. Asking yurself specific questions such as "What is this all about?" you will actively find the answer you are looking for as you lead your writing.
Locating an author's main ideas is the key to understanding your reading. Seeing the relationship between the main idea and details will support the first distinguished general and specific ideas. The topic is the most general idea, also the most specific idea. The details are the most specific support and illustrate the main idea of your writing. Looking in the usual places, noticing clues, words and categorizing and authors point are four main strategies. You can use them to think about what you read. Asking yurself specific questions such as "What is this all about?" you will actively find the answer you are looking for as you lead your writing.
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