A Concise and Practical Guide to Becoming a Strategic Learner
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You have completed this set of prescriptions on Selecting Main Ideas. To see how you have done take the 5-item True/False quiz shown below. Your score will be shown on the next page.
1. Each paragraph of a reading will have one sentence which states the paragraph’s main idea and other sentences which further explain that main idea.
True False
2. The main idea of a paragraph is usually stated in its first sentence, but that is not always its location.
3. During a lecture, all statements are equally important.
4. Once the main idea of a paragraph is understood, the information in the other sentences needs less attention.
5. An effective process for assuring that a paragraph’s main idea was found is to write a question that can only be answered by that main idea.
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