Friday, November 10, 2006

 
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Asma Abdulkadir
Eng 82 10-30-2006

Finding Supporting Details Chapter 6

It is very important to locate the main idea and the major supporting details in a reading assignment are the foundation of college reading. The authors use details to help reads understand the supporting details. As privacy stated, major supporting details provide support for the main idea of a reading. They are commonly presented in the form of examples illustrations, explanations, definitions, facts of opinions. They typically answer who, what, when, how, and why? Minor supporting details are intended to clarify and enhance the major supporting details and are not usually considered as important. However some of them are significant and useful. It is important to prioritize details.
Once you identify the main ideas of on your reading material, you can divide the rest of the material into two categories major and main supporting details. If you are able to distinguish between the major and main supporting details, in your reading materials, it means you have understood what you have reading.


Chapter Seven:

This chapter explaining to fully understand a reading assignment, For example, what is inference? Inference is the process of thinking making assumptions and drawing conclusions about information. What we see, what we read, when an author’s opinions or ideas that are directly or indirectly implied in a reading stated materials.

Understand and an inference author’s purpose
Note comparisons and implied similarities
understand and an author’s use of time
Detect an author’s bias
Recognize information gaps
Seeing an Author’s Perspective
Using the text to support your conclusion
By using inference to identify implied main ideas your reading assignment will understand an author’s purpose. Successful readers understand that an author has a reason for writing, and that reason frames the author’s main ideas even if he or she doesn’t explicitly state them. To understand an author’s purpose in writing about a topic, ask yourself, what the author’s purpose for writing this textbook is.


Chapter Eight Textbook Methods of Organization

In this chapter, we will learn about the different of textbook organization. The author’s will combine organizational methods depending on the type and complexity of the topics.
They are discussing, knowing the different patterns, or methods of organization helps you make sense of what you are reading and remembering the content more accurate.



The author uses a number of classic organizational patterns.
How to use methods of organization
Organizational word clues owl’s
Listing 6. Comparison/contrast
Sequence 8. Definition/Example
Analysis 9. Cause/Effect

The authors use different methods of organization. In order to present information in a logical format that suits. The subject matter and goals of their books,
For example, the author uses a variety of ways to organize his methods. Alphabetically, numerically, by order of importance, or the order of chronological events, Although authors may use (OWC) such as first and second, useful way to identify on author’s method of organization is to look for the organizational word clues that indicate which patterns he or she is using.

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