Exam 9: About: Find the Topic

Read each detail and choose the most appropriate topic. -What is the topic of the following details? There are three common types of phobias.Agoraphobia is the fear of public places.Claustrophobia is the fear of small, confined spaces.Acrophobia is the fear of high places.

Which of the following techniques can help a reader find the topic of a passage?

Read each detail and choose the most appropriate topic. -What is the topic of the following details? The first day of school is usually very hectic for both teachers and students.They both nervously await the first bell and hope they have everything.Students worry if they chose the right shirt necessary for making a good first Impression.Teachers search for the class rosters and hope the students have found the correct Classroom for their first class.

When looking for a topic, it is important to keep all of the following strategies in mind EXCEPT:

To locate the topic of a sentence, a reader should ask a question that begins with ______.

A topic should be ____________.

Read each paragraph and place [brackets] around the topic. -As a new musical genre, jazz developed in the brothels, saloons, dance halls, and streets of southern cities, particularly New Orleans, primarily among African American musicians.But from there it spread to Chicago, Kansas City, and New York and can be heard anywhere in the world today.Although it probably was around as early as the turn of the twentieth century, no one knows for sure where jazz actually began.Carter, Mindscapes, 1st edition

Read each paragraph and place [brackets] around the topic. -Automobile side air bags are also available to protect occupants from side-impactcollisions, which account for 30% of all accidents.Side air bags must be engineered to deploy more quickly than those that protect from front-end collisions because a few inches of door separate the occupant from the colliding vehicle.Side air bags are mounted in the doors; in the roof - from which they deploy downward; and in seat backs -from which they deploy toward the door. Shipman, Todd, and Wilson, An Introduction to Physical Science, 11th edition

Read each paragraph and place [brackets] around the topic. -In the more than 50 years since the first successful organ transplant, hundreds of thousands of patients have had their lives extended because of organ donations.Despite decades of campaigns to persuade Americans to donate organs after they die, however,the demand increasingly exceeds the supply.The waiting list for organs, mostly kidneys,has doubled over the past decade to more than 92,000 patients.Eighteen die daily before getting one. Carter, Mindscapes, 1st edition