Before reading this chapter on understanding paragraphs I did know that a paragraph, then, is a group of related sentences about a single topic. It has four essential parts: topic, main idea, details, and transitions. I want to know more about how writers leave out main ideas and it is up to the reader to imply the main idea. I believe that by the writer leaving out the main idea and the readers have to imply the main idea, it can cause some people to misinterpret the main idea. I learned from reading this chapter about paragraphs that there is a test you can perform to discover if you inferred a reasonable main idea. The idea you infer to be the main idea should be broad enough so that every sentence in the paragraph explains the idea you have chosen. You have to work through the paragraph, sentence by sentence. I want to know more about why the topic sentence is moved around in the paragraphs. Usually whenever I write an essay my topic sentence is usually at the beginning of the paragraph as well as the ending.
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