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Topic 3 Topic, Main Idea and Supporting Details of A Paragraph
Topic 3 Topic, Main Idea and Supporting Details of A Paragraph
1 A heading or title.
FOR
3 Repeated words in a paragraph.
4
Something mentioned at the beginning of the
paragraph and then referred to throughout the
paragraph by pronouns or by other words.
Example 1
What is the topic of this
paragraph?
The protein source and the primary ingredient in pet food are
meat by-products or meat meal. These are euphemisms for
the parts of animals that would not be considered meat by
any smart consumer. The well-known phrase
"meat by-products“ is a misnomer since these by-products
contain little, if any, meat. These are the parts of the animal’s
leftover after the meat has been stripped away from the
bone. "Chicken by-products include head, feet, entrails,
lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, liver, stomach, bones, blood,
intestines, and any other part of the carcass not fit for human
consumption," says Henry Pasternak in Healing Animals with
Nature's Miracle Cures.
WHAT IS A MAIN IDEA?
- writing summaries
MAIN IDEA SENTENCE
2 What?
Supporting
details answer 3 When?
these questions: 4 Where?
5 Why?
6 How?
1 Personal Opinion / Personal Testimony
Types of
Support for
3 Statistics / Research Findings /
Research / Study
EXPERT OPINION
RESEARCH FINDINGS
GEOGRAPHICAL INFO
The protein source and the primary ingredient in pet food are
TOPIC
meat by-products or meat meal. These are euphemisms for
the parts of animals that would not be considered meat by
any smart consumer. The well-known phrase
Explanation "meat by-products“ is a misnomer since these by-products
contain little, if any, meat. These are the parts of the animal’s
leftover after the meat has been stripped away from the
bone. "Chicken by-products include head, feet, entrails,
lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, liver, stomach, bones, blood,
Examples intestines, and any other part of the carcass not fit for human
consumption," says Henry Pasternak in Healing Animals with
Nature's Miracle Cures.
SUMMARY
Stated Main
Idea