finding the main idea in nonfiction text powerpoint

... deter- mine: 1. The overall main idea 2. The main idea of each paragraph (major supporting ideas) 3. Minor supporting ideas Be careful the overall main idea is not where you might expect it to be. The ... numbers are in parentheses): Main idea (1) Detail (2) Example (3) Detail (4) Example (5, 6) DISTINGUISHING MAIN IDEAS FROM SUPPORTING IDEAS If you’re not sure whether something is a main idea or ... phrases that signal supporting ideas. FINDING THE SUPPORTING IDEAS 75 Here’s the same paragraph in outline form: I. Due to increasing costs, there will be two changes in the tuition reim- bursement...

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... 2000. Mapping wordnets using structural information. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong. Finding Predominant Word Senses in Untagged ... sections of the Reuters corpus. We demonstrate that choosing texts from a particular domain has a significant in uence on the sense ranking. We chose the domains of SPORTS and FINANCE since there is ... described in section 2.1 above. We obtained the predominant sense for each of these words and used these to label the instances in the noundata within the SENSEVAL-2 Englishall- words task. We give the...

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... together all the ideas in the passage. There- fore, the main idea must be general enough to encompass all the ideas in the passage. Much like a net, it holds everything in the passage together. ... language to get their ideas across. Finding an implied main idea is much like finding a stated main idea. If you recall from Lesson 2, a main idea is defined as an assertion about the subject that ... summarizes the statement’s main idea? a. There are too many thefts in the garage. b. There are not enough security guards. c. There is something wrong with the security in the parking garage. Answer The...

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... participating in the pathways of LPS- induced NO production, are schematically summarized in Fig. 8. In the present study, the important role of the indirect pathway through IFN-c in LPS-induced ... 270) Ó FEBS 2003 at the 2-h time-point and maintained up to the 18-h time- point (Fig. 6A). Specificity of IRF-1 binding to the DNA probe was confirmed from the result that the strong bands observed ... recombinant IL-15 on the induction of IFN-c in the PEC was not evident, even in combination with IL-12 or IL-18 (data not shown). These results indicate that IL-15 contributes far less to the indirect...

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... for desk installation. (code 1) (lb) To install the phone on a desk, follow the steps in the illustration below. (le) Follow the steps in the illustration below, for installing the phone ... simple object as the complement. Although all these forms are grammatical and communicate the same basic in- formation, the form in (la) was used in the corpus. I am interested in the functional ... as in (5c), that is stated in precondition form as a phrase following the next action. The manual writer, in this example, is emphasizing the actions peculiar to the cordless phone and paying...

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... students. Doing the pedagogics exercises brings many effects; of which the main effects are: strengthening knowledge of the subject, improving learning interest in the subject, testing, evaluating study ... method of credit training regime. - Finalize and develop the theory of designing and using the exercises in teaching including the requirements, principles, procedures of designing: an exercise, ... ensure the lecturer r ’s control and training quality. Continue to invest in infrastructure, equipment to demand practice, experiment, training and teaching to meet the training requirement under the...

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... All these words share the same root— advers. Only the endings change. – DEFINING VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT– 36 Practice Read the following passages and determine the mean- ing of the words from their ... come across today and the rest of the week. Instead of looking them up in a dictionary, try to figure out the meanings of these words from their context. Then, look them up in a dictionary to make ... 1 Try these questions on the following statements. Read them carefully, and then write F in the blank if the statement is a fact and O if it is an opinion. The answers appear right after the questions. 1....

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... getting the facts, finding the main idea, determining what words mean in context, and distinguishing between fact and opinion. In this lesson, you’ll get vital practice in using all four skills ... Far These are the strategies you studied in the past four lessons: ■ Lesson 1: Find the facts in what you read. Yo u practiced looking for the basic information that was being conveyed in the ... Determine the meaning of words from context. You practiced looking for clues to determine meaning in the words and sentences surrounding the unfamiliar word or phrase. ■ Lesson 4: Distinguish...

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... murder. 11. Indelible means a. permanent, impossible to remove. b. fleeting, brief. c. troubling, disturbing. 12. The main idea of this paragraph is best expressed in which sentence in the paragraph? 13. ... also serving those foods, they are clearly copying fast-food menus, not rejecting, ignoring,or disregarding them. 4. c. Answer a is an assumption not based on any- thing written in the passage. ... encompass the whole paragraph. 5. True. This sentence expresses the main idea. 6. True. This sentence is an opinion. It is debatable. Someone else might think that altering the menu in school...

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... stories start in the middle and flash backward to the begin- ning; a few start at the end and tell the story in reverse. But most of the time, stories start at the beginning. Writers often begin with ... and then tell what happened next, and next, and so on, until the end. When writers tell a story in this order, from beginning to end in the order in which things happened, they are telling it in ... came up with the idea of the International Dinner to raise funds to repair the damages. The plan was to cel- ebrate the diversity of the Berkshire Park Neighborhood Association by serving ethnic...

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... least power in the company. Then the next, and the next, until at last, you reach the president. Likewise, in writing, ideas may be arranged in order of importance. In this pattern, which idea comes ... and rearrange them so that they are in chronological order. Here’s the order of events as they are presented in the story. ■ The International Dinner raised $15,000 to reno- vate the Berkshire ... members came up with the idea of the International Dinner to raise funds for repairs. ■ The plan was to serve foods that represent the var- ious cultures in the neighborhood. ■ The committee organized...

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... third, in addition, and most importantly. Main Idea By the way, what is the main idea of the two para- graphs above? Do you see a topic sentence? Write the main idea of the paragraphs in this ... out by saying the most important thing,” you know that the writer will be starting with the most important idea and ending with the least important. The second best thing, therefore, is the second ... offered in the paragraph: “Check the doctor’s credentials.” 3. What’s the third most important thing? Since the writer is going from most to least important, then according the passage, the third...

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