Types of Details

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Types of Details

• Details include more than just examples.

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Beyond the Main Idea, Paragraphs Include.

• Supporting Details
• facts and ideas that prove or explain the main
  idea of a paragraph.
• range in degree of importance.

• Transitions
• linking words or phrases used to lead the reader
  from one idea to another.

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There are several types of supporting details

• Examples
• Facts and Statistics
• Reasons
• Descriptions
• Steps or Procedures

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Examples Clarify Meaning.

• Examples make ideas and concepts real and
  understandable.
• The speed that a body has at any one instant is
  called instantaneous speed. For example, when we
  say that the speed of a car at some particular
  instant is 60 kilometers per hour, we mean that
  if the car continued moving as fast for an hour,
  it would travel 60 kilometers.

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Facts and Statistics Prove Main Ideas.

• The facts and statistics may provide evidence
  that the main idea is correct or further explain
  the main idea.
• An increasing number of minority workers will
  join the work force by the year 2000. The United
  States Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that
  white males, who have dominated the work force
  for several generations, will make up only 15
  percent of the new entrants in the labor force
  between 1990 and 2000.

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Reasons Explain Why the Main Idea is Right.

• A writer may support an idea by giving reasons
  why a main idea is correct.
• There are several reasons why warm air rises.
  Warm air expands and becomes less dense than the
  surrounding air and is buoyed upward like a
  balloon. They buoyancy is in an upward direction
  because the air pressure below a region of warmed
  air is greater than the air pressure above. Also,
  the warmed air rises because the buoyant force is
  greater than its weight.

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Descriptions Help Us See the Main Idea.

• When the topic of a paragraph is a person,
  object, place, or process, the writer may develop
  the paragraph by describing the object.
• The Koran is the sacred book of the Islamic
  religion. It was written during the lifetime of
  Mohammed (570-632) during the years in which he
  recorded divine revelations.

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Procedures Tell Us How to Do Something.

• When a paragraph explains how to do something,
  the paragraph details are lists of steps or
  procedures to be followed
• To prepare an outline of a speech, you should
  first read about the topic. Next, find the main
  points. After that, locate the details that
  support the main points. Finally, organize the
  main points and details in a logical order.

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How Are the Details Arranged Here?

• One way to classify culture is in terms of
  masculinity and femininity. Masculine cultures
  emphasize success and encourage assertiveness.
  Members of a masculine culture are likely to
  confront conflicts directly and to compete
  openly. These cultures are more likely to
  emphasize win-lose strategies. Feminine cultures
  emphasize the quality of life. They socialize
  people to be modest and to value interpersonal
  relationships. Members of a feminine culture are
  more likely to emphasize compromise and
  negotiation and to seek win-win solutions.

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The Paragraph Outlined

• TS One way to classify culture is in terms of
  masculinity and femininity.
• MD1 Masculine cultures emphasize success and
  encourage assertiveness.
• SD1 Members of a masculine culture are likely to
  confront conflicts directly and to compete
  openly.
• SD2 These cultures are more likely to emphasize
  win-lose strategies.
• MD2 Feminine cultures emphasize quality of life.
  
• SD1 They socialize people to be modest and to
  value interpersonal relationships.
• SD2 Members of a feminine culture are more
  likely to emphasize compromise and negotiation
  and to seek win-win solutions.

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Writers Also Use Transitions to Indicate Train of
Thought.

• Time-Sequence
• Example
• Enumeration
• Continuation
• Contrast
• Comparison
• Cause-Effect

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Time-Sequence Transition

• The author is arranging ideas in the order in
  which they happened.
• Examples
• first
• later
• next
• finally

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Example Transition

• It tells the reader that an example will follow.
• Examples
• for example
• for instance
• to illustrate
• such as

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Enumeration

• The author is marking or identifying each major
  point (sometimes these may be used to suggest
  order of importance).
• Examples first, second, third, last, another,
  next

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Continuation

• The author is continuing with the same idea and
  is going to provide additional information.
• Examples
• also,
• in addition,
• and,
• further,
• another

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Comparison/Contrast

• Comparison The writer will show how the previous
  idea is similar to what follows.
• Examples Like, likewise, similarly
• Contrast The author is switching to a different,
  opposite, or contrasting idea than previously
  discussed.
• Examples on the other hand in contrast however

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Cause/Effect

• The writer will show a connection between two or
  more things, how one thing caused another, or how
  something happened as a result of something else.
  
• Example because, thus, therefore, since,
  consequently

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Beyond the Main Idea, Paragraphs Include.

• Supporting Details
• facts and ideas that prove or explain the main
  idea of a paragraph.
• range in degree of importance.

• Transitions
• linking words or phrases used to lead the reader
  from one idea to another.