Summary:
The ability to locate an author's main idea is key to understanding your reading. In order to see the relationship between the main idea and the details that support it, you must first distinguish between general ideas and more specific ones. The topic is the most general idea. The main idea is the more specific controlling idea of a piece of writing. The details, which are the most specific, support and illustrate the main idea. Some main ideas are stated directly in a reading and are easy to identify. Others are implied, and you must infer their meaning from the reading and then restated them in your own words.
EXERCISE 5f (p.154)
General and Specific Statements
1. (B) The Catholic and Jewish religions have many followers.
2. (B) The black widow is a venomous spider with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of its abdomen.
3. (A) The first two years of a child's life are known as the period of sensorimotor intelligence.
4. (B) The fatty tissue in our body supports organs, pads them from injury, and helps the body to retain heat.
5. (B) A hasty generalization occurs when a conclusion is reached based on a very limited sample of evidence.
6. (B) "Spider man" is a video game that can be played on Game Cube.
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