Dear Khun Makemok123 and other juniors
In this case, I think the link to “What is the main idea of a paragraph?”, provided under the Resources in Module 5, has become a “dead link”. The dead link usually happens when the content with such a link has been moved to another server.
I also looked into 14213 Folder on my notebook, in which I had kept a huge collection of resources from all courses during my study at STOU, but unfortunately I couldn’t find anything on this topic. However, I then tried to trace the whereabouts of the missing article within the web pages of Cerritos College, to which the dead link was leading.
I found an article, “TUTORIAL ON TOPIC AND TOPIC SENTENCES”, which says:
“What is a Topic? What is a Topic Sentence?
“A paragraph's topic is the subject of the paragraph -- who or what the paragraph is about. Finding the topic of a paragraph is the first step in finding out what the paragraph is trying to say to you. This simple question will help you find the topic of a paragraph: In general, who or what is this paragraph about?..”
Besides, I couldn’t find any other article with similar topics in relation to “the main idea of a paragraph”. So, I came to think that this article might be the piece of information whose link has become dead. And this is the link to the above mentioned content:
http://cms.cerritos.edu/reading/topics- ... tences.htm
If it’s not the same article as earlier provided by Ajarn, I still think it’s beneficial to all of you at some degree.
For those of you who may be interested in exploring more on the matter of “main idea”, I would also suggest you read “Topic sentence” from Wikipedia at the following link too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_sentence
Enjoy your course na krub..!
Best wishes always,
Ekkawit
Class of 2015