In Chater 6, "Understanding paragraphs: Topics and main ideas", readers we introduced to general and specific ideas. A general idea is a broad idea and applies to a large number of individual items. An example of this us a word like "Countries". This is a general idea because we want to know more about the "Countries" or what "Countries" you would like to know about. A specific idea is a more detailed idea. So above I used Countries as an example and if you wanted to be more talking about Countries, you'd talk about The UK , The US, Brazil etc.
In addition to all of these definitions, I also learned what a a topic sentence is. A topic sentence is usually a clue about what exactly the main idea of a story or article is. This will help of course when you start to write a paragraph on something for your class.
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