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Page 1: IRW Chapter 6

Part Two:Reading, Writing, and Organizing Paragraphs

Chapter 6:Details, Transitions, and Implied Main Ideas

PowerPoint by Sarah Gilliam, Instructor of English

Mountain Empire Community College

Copyright 2014 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

In Concert:An Integrated Reading and Writing Approach

by Kathleen T. McWhorter

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Chapter 6: Details, Transitions, and Implied Main Ideas

In this chapter, you will learn how to:

Goal 1

Goal 2

Goal 3

Goal 5

Goal 4

Understand details, transitions, and implied main ideas

Identify supporting details

Think critically about details

Use transitions to guide your reading

Find implied main ideas

Select and organize details to support your topic sentence

Goal 6

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Goal 7 Use transitional words and phrases to connect details

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Important Terms to Remember:

1. Supporting Details

2. Transitions

3. Implied Main Ideas

Helpful Tips:

• As a reader, examine how details support a topic sentence.

• As a writer, select the appropriate details to support your topic sentence.

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Goal 1: Understand Details, Transitions, and Implied Main Ideas

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Important Terms to Remember:

1. Supporting Details

2. Major Details

3. Minor Details

What are some types of details?

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Goal 2: Identify Supporting Details

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Types of Details:

• Facts

• Examples

• Reasons

• Statistics

• Descriptions

• Steps

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Goal 2: Identify Supporting Details

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How do I think critically about details?

Consider:

• Writers cannot list every possible detail

• Writers must choose the most important details to include

Helpful Tips:

• As a reader, consider if the writer could have chosen better details

• As a writer, try to choose the details most relevant to your main idea

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Goal 3: Think Critically About Details

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Transitions are linking words or phrases that lead the reader from one idea to another idea.

Helpful Tips:

• Recognizing and using transitions will help guide you through a paragraph, making it easier to read or to write.

• Transitions also alert the reader to what will come in the next paragraph.

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Goal 4: Use Transitions to Guide Your Reading

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The implied main idea is unstated, and it is up to the reader to use details in the paragraph to figure out the main point.

What are some strategies for identifying the implied main idea of a paragraph?

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Goal 5: Find Implied Main Ideas

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Strategies for Identifying the Implied Main Idea:

1. Find the topic

2. Figure out what is the most important idea the writer wants you to know about the topic

3. Express the main idea in your own words

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Goal 5: Find Implied Main Ideas

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Details should be relevant and sufficient:

• Relevant details directly explain and support the topic sentence.

• Sufficient details provide enough information to make your topic sentence understandable and convincing.

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Goal 6: Select and Organize Details to Support Your Topic Sentence

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Transitional words allow readers to move easily from one detail to another, showing how the details relate.

Helpful Tip:Think of transitions as words and phrases that

guide the reader through the paragraph and signal what is to come in the next one.

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Goal 7: Use Transitional Words and Phrases to Connect Details

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Other Important Terms to Remember:

1. Time Sequence

2. Spatial Arrangement

3. Least/Most Arrangement

4. Specific Words

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Goal 7: Use Transitional Words and Phrases to Connect Details

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Goal 1: Understand Details, Transitions, and Implied Main Ideas

Review Questions

True or False:Transitions are words or phrases that connect details and pull a paragraph together.

True or False: The implied main idea is directly stated.

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Goal 1: Understand Details, Transitions, and Implied Main Ideas

Review Questions

True or False:True: Transitions are words or phrases that connect details and pull a paragraph together.

True or False: False: The implied main idea is directly stated.

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Goal 2: Identify Supporting Details

Review QuestionsWhich of the following is NOT a type of detail?

A. Reasons

B. Photographs

C. Statistics

D. Examples

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Goal 2: Identify Supporting Details

Review QuestionsWhich of the following is NOT a type of detail?

A. Reasons

B. Photographs

C. Statistics

D. Examples

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Goal 3: Think Critically About Details

Review QuestionsTrue or False:Writers should include every possible detail they can think of in their paragraphs.

True or False: Good readers consider details the author of the writing may have left out.

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Goal 3: Think Critically About Details

Review QuestionsTrue or False:False: Writers should include every possible detail they can think of in their paragraphs.

True or False: True: Good readers consider details the author of the writing may have left out.

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Goal 4: Use Transitions to Guide Your Reading

Review QuestionsWhich of the following do transitions NOT do?

A. Lead the reader from one idea to another

B. Transition readers to the information in the next paragraph

C. Review information in all the previous paragraphs

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Goal 4: Use Transitions to Guide Your Reading

Review QuestionsWhich of the following do transitions NOT do?

A. Lead the reader from one idea to another

B. Transition readers to the information in the next paragraph

C. Review information in all the previous paragraphs

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Goal 5: Find Implied Main IdeasReview Questions

Which of the following is an effective strategy for identifying the implied main idea?

A. Choose the first sentence of the paragraph.

B. Look for transitions.

C. Identify the topic and try to determine the idea the author is trying to relay.

D. All of the above.

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Goal 5: Find Implied Main IdeasReview Questions

Which of the following is an effective strategy for identifying the implied main idea?

A. Choose the first sentence of the paragraph.

B. Look for transitions.

C. Identify the topic and try to determine the idea the author is trying to relay.

D. All of the above.

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Goal 6: Select and Organize Details to Support Your Topic Sentence

Review QuestionsTrue or False:Relevant details explain the transitions in the paragraph.

True or False:Sufficient details provide enough information to make the topic sentence understandable.

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Goal 6: Select and Organize Details to Support Your Topic Sentence

Review QuestionsTrue or False:False: Relevant details explain the transitions in the paragraph.

True or False:True: Sufficient details provide enough information to make the topic sentence understandable.

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Goal 7: Use Transitional Words and Phrases to Connect Details

Review QuestionsWhich of the following is a method of transition?

A. Spatial arrangement

B. Time sequence

C. Least/most arrangement

D. All of the above

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Goal 7: Use Transitional Words and Phrases to Connect Details

Review QuestionsWhich of the following is a method of transition?

A. Spatial arrangement

B. Time sequence

C. Least/most arrangement

D. All of the above

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