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To be effective, feedback on someone's

work must have certain characteristics.


First, it must be timely, occurring soon
after the work has been done. Second, it
must be accurate. The best work should
get the most positive feedback; the
poorest work should get the most
negative feedback. Finally, feedback
should be tailored to the recipient,
expressed in a way suited to that
person's personality and abilities.
How to identify Supporting Details?
➢Find the topic
➢Find the main idea
➢Turn the main idea statement into a
question by the used of “w/h” word.
➢Remaining sentences could be supporting
details
➢Supporting details can be find by
the help of signal words.
Examples of signal words,
One
First (of all)
Second (ly)
Third (ly)
And etc..
Topic: effective feedback
Main Idea: To be effective, feedback on someone's
work must have certain characteristics
Question: What characteristics must feedback on
someone's work contain?
Supporting Details: timely, accurate, tailored to the
recipient
Major details - directly explain develop,
or illustrate the main idea.
•They are the principal (most important
points the author is making about the
topic.
Minor details - explain a major detail
further. The main idea would still be
clear if the minor details were left out.
• Not as important as major details
• Used to add interest and to give further
descriptions, examples, testimonies,
analysis,
illustrations and reasons for the major
details.
Students should consider many variables
when choosing classes. Time of day, you
can choose classes that meet early in the
morning, mid- morning, early afternoon,
mid- afternoon, early evening, or evening.
Whether it is required or not, you may not
want to take classes that do not qualify as
credit toward your degree. How much
reading/writing may be involved, you may
not want to take several classes at the
same time that will involve a lot of
reading, such as novels, or that require
writing multiple papers.
Get 1 whole sheet of paper and answer the following.
You are given 15 minutes to answer.

I. Write the answers that corresponds to a given


questions.

1.It is basically discussing the major details?


2.What are the basic types of supporting details?
3.Are reasons, facts, examples that support the main idea?
4.What are the things to consider in identifying the
supporting details.?
5.It is simply directly explaining, develop and illustrate the
main idea.

II. Write an essay about the following.


1.Why do we need to find first the topic and the main idea
first before finding the supporting details?
2.What is the importance of identifying of supporting
details?

III. Construct a paragraph that includes a topic, main


idea, and supporting details.
ASSIGNMENT:
Search an article and identify the
supporting details in the text.

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