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| 5 strategies for finding the main idea. |
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1. Pay careful attention to the beginning and the end. The main idea is often stated in one or both of these places.
2. Watch for visual clues. In some writing, especially textbooks, the use of italics or bold type signals a main point.
3. Notice repeated words or phrases. If an author says something more than once, it's probably at or near the core of his or her message.
4. Be alert to signal words or phrases. Such expressions as the bottom line, when all is said and done, most important, and finally often tell us that the key point is coming.
5. Test your theory. Once you think you've found the main idea, look at some of the specific topics and facts that come up in the piece of writing. Do they all have to do with the main idea? If so, then you've probably got it. If not, keep looking. |
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| Making educated guesses. It is reading between the lines and answering the questions that the writing gives us by the information given there. |
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| Using your senses to play scenes in your head. |
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| You can experience something with your senses. |
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| Statement doesn't connect with any of our senses. |
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1. A summary expresses the key ideas of a passage, not your opinion about it. In other words, it's objective.
2. A summary is in your own words.
3. A summary leaves out details and concentrates on main points.
4. A summary shows the points that lead to main points. |
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1. Underline main ideas.
2. Watch for things stated twice.
3. Watch for words that signal a change in thought. |
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1. Generate ideas
2. Organize ideas |
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| Ways to stop writer's block |
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1. Think. Find a place that helps you think creatively.
2. Freewrite. Write without stopping.
3. Read. Find articles or stories on topic.
4. Discuss topic with others.
5. Cluster. Use a bubble map.
6. Create an outline. |
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| Four purposes for writing |
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1. Inform
2. Entertain.
3. Explain.
4. Persuade. |
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| Details that relate clearly to the subject. |
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| Taking place in the mind or heart of a character. |
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| Between characters, or between a character and some force. |
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| Someone who has a complicated personalities. |
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| Has one character trait that dominates. |
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| A person that stays the same throughout a story. |
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| A person who changes in some important way. |
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| He, She, Him, Her, They, Them. |
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| Does not no feelings, or only knows one person's. |
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| An issue or idea on which the story sheds some light, an idea outside the story. |
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1. Conflicts.
2. The character that you are rooting for and their values.
3. Atmosphere that is given inside the story. |
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| To take a specific detail or situation or conflict and use it as the basis for a broad statement. |
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| Summarize the passage or story you have written and then tie that into a life lesson. |
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| A sentence that clearly states an idea, a point related to everything else in the paragraph. |
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| They must agree with each other. They must be in the same tense. |
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| The action happens now, or the statement is always true. |
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| The action happened sometime before now. |
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| The action will happen in the future. |
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| When the action is completed, was completed, or will be completed. |
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| Teacher's pet peeve. When a comma is used to connect two independent clauses. |
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| How to find writer's bias |
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1. Direct statement where stated clearly and boldly.
2. The positive or negative charge from their words.
3. Stacked evidence where all evidence goes toward a specific opinion. |
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| to takes sides on an issue or have an opinion about it |
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| designed to influence our opinions and actions |
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| the believe that helps hold up the author's argument or the support |
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| the attitude or emotional flavor in a piece of writing |
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| A synonym of sarcastic is |
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| The writer's tone helps a reader determine the |
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| the tone the same throughout |
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| inductive reasoning that start with many facts and comes to a point |
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| deductive reasoning that starts with one principle or belief and ends with many facts |
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| use of small story or example as evidence |
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| A way to prove a point by stretching the truth by writers |
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| comparing two situations that don't go together |
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| hasty generalization fallacy |
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| jumping to a conclusion based on little evidence |
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| circular reasoning fallacy |
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| using the statement you're trying to prove as part of the proof |
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| Because a happened before b then a caused b |
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| everyone else is doing it |
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| making the other side look weaker |
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| attacking the character instead of the issue |
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| glittering generalities fallacy |
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| using expressions that sound good but don't apply to the situation |
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| status/snob appeal fallacy |
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| you'll be cool if you do it |
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| invalid authority fallacy |
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| saying a famous person agreed with it when they don't know anymore about it than anyone else |
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| what type of writing is most frequently assigned in school |
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| intro, main body, conclusion |
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| catch attention, clarify topic, present thesis |
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| 3 para., each with reason for thesis, each with topic sentence and support of thesis, transition |
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| restate thesis, call for action, provide closer, so what |
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