STRUCTURE OF ON ARTICLE

Structure Of On Article

1.       Topic

2.       Main Idea

3.       Topic Sentence

4.       Supporting Sentence

·         A Text (some paragraph)

·         Paragraph (Sentences)

-          Every paragraph has a topic

-          Every paragraph has a main idea

-          Every paragraph has a topic sentence

-          Every paragraph has a supporting sentence

Topic

1.       The topic of a text  is the subject, or what the text is about.

2.       A topic can be expressed as a noun or noun phrase

3.       Some example of topic include

a.       Recycling

b.       Mammals

4.       Trees of ontario

5.       Theme, what we write

Main Idea -> tersirat

1.       An idea is what the author says about a topic

2.       Ideas are expressed as sentences

Topic Sentence -> tersurat

1.       Sentence in paragraph that contains the main idea (statement of the main idea)

2.       Usually the topic sentences is the first sentence in a paragraph

3.       Topic sentences are useful in determining the relationship between ideas and supporting details

Supporting Sentence

1.       The sentences that explain the main idea

2.       Details consists of specific information such as examples, explanations, reasons, descriptions, proof, and statistics

3.       Who, what, when, where, why, how

4.       The answer will be the details