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Chapter 6

Topik 5. Specific information of a reading passage

1. Learning Outcomes

After learning the topic:
1. The students are able to identify specific information of a reading
Passage
2. The students are able to identify explicit and implicit information

2. Material

In reading besides identifying main idea, understanding specific details is very
important too. When you try to get the specific information or details that you

need, you can read by reading text carefully or scanning the text. Scanning
means very high speed reading. You do not read every word, only the words that

answer your questions.

Supporting Details

Every reading passage have maid idea and specific details. The main idea of
a paragraph tells the topic of the paragraph. The topic tells what all or most of the

sentences are about. The other sentences in the paragraph are called supporting
details. Supporting details describe or explain the main idea.

The way how supporting details are organized is called Method of

Organization in a paragraph. The common method of organizations are time
order, emphatic order and spatial order. Time order simply means that details are

listed as they occur in time. First this is done; next this; then this, after that this;

and so on. A writer may also use emphatic order in his composition. Emphatic
order is sometimes described as “save-the-best-till-the last” order. It means that

the most interesting or important details is placed in the last part of a paper. In
cases where all the details seems equal in importance, the writer should impose

a personal order that seems logical or appropriate to the details. The last position
in a paper is the most emphatic position because the reader is most likely to

remember the last thing to read. Finally, last of all, and most important are typical

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