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Reading and All That Jazz book cover
Reading and All That Jazz: Tuning Up Your Reading, Thinking, and Study Skills, 2/e
Peter Mather, Glendale Community College
Rita McCarthy, Glendale Community College
Topics, Main Ideas, and Details

Chapter Objectives

In this chapter, you will:

1

learn how to distinguish between general ideas and specific ideas.

2

learn how to identify the topic of a paragraph.

3

learn how to locate the stated main idea of a paragraph.

4

learn how to diagram a paragraph by identifying its main idea sentence and key details.

5

become familiar with paraphrasing.

6

learn how to formulate implied main ideas.








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