tailieunhanh - Reading comprehension success part 14

Tham khảo tài liệu 'reading comprehension success part 14', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Reading between the Lines Now that you ve studied the way authors use structure and language to organize and express their ideas you re ready to tackle more difficult passages those in which the writers don t provide clear topic sentences or do not clearly indicate their intentions. To understand this type of text you have to read between the lines. This means you have to really put your observation skills to use and scour the passage for clues to meaning. Like Sherlock Holmes you will really have to notice what you see. By the end of this section you should be able to Determine an implied main idea Determine an implied cause or effect Distinguish between logical and emotional appeals Determine the theme of a piece of literature You ll look at a variety of texts including some literature and then put it all together in a review lesson. 117 LESSON 16 Finding the Implied Main Idea LESSON SUMMARY This lesson shows you how to determine the main idea of a passage in which the writer has not provided a topic sentence or otherwise spelled it out for you. Oh the power of suggestion. Advertisers know it well and so do writers. They know that they can get an idea across to their readers without directly saying it. Instead of providing a topic sentence that expresses their main idea many times they simply omit that sentence and instead provide a series of clues through structure and 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 controls or holds together all the ideas in the passage. Therefore 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. So far all but one of the passages in this book have had a topic sentence that stated the main idea so finding the main idea was something of a process of elimination You could eliminate the .