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CHARPTER 5 Identifying Topics, Topic Sentences and Main Ideas Introduction This chapter will provide you with one important reading skill- reading for main idea. Normally, a good paragraph in any passage must be organized. That is, the writer put only one main idea in one paragraph. He clearly states the topic sentence or the main sentence (Topic + Controlling Idea). Then he develops ideas in the paragraph carefully, using coherence words. Other sentences are supporting details of the main idea of that paragraph When you read any piece of writing, you would like to know the writer’s ideas and what the story tells you. Consequently, you have to find the topic, and who or what the paragraph is about. It can be a word or phrase. The topic appears in the topic sentence. The experienced writer always writes the topic sentence at the beginning of the paragraph. In fact, topic sentence is the main idea of the paragraph because that sentence contains the topic and the controlling idea. To put in another way, the main idea refers to what the paragraph is about. Topic sentence Topic sentence is the main sentence of a paragraph, which describes its content and direction. It details the main controlling idea of the paragraph. It also sets the tone for the organization of the supporting sentences that further explain the concept established by the topic sentence. Topic sentences are most often written at the beginning of the paragraph. By writing it in the beginning, the writer is informing the reader of what is coming. However, in more creative writings, topic sentences may be placed in the middle or at the end of a paragraph.
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