Sunday, March 30, 2008

TFY-CHAPTER 4 Summary

1.The word infer means:
A.Derive by reasoning;
B. Conclude;
C.Guess
2.Responsible report writing or desciptive writing lets the facts speak for themselves as much as possible.
3.Writing that offers spcific detailed support for its conclusions makes interesting writing .
4.reasonable inferences can be used in descriptive writing to tie facts together.
5.In solving problems,inferences can be use as a strategy in planning and choosing altematives.
6.Detectives and consultants of all kinds are valued for their ability to examine facts and make the best inferences from them.
7.Inference tend to build on inferences in chains of associaition
8.Facts and inferences are linked together through generalizations.
9.The topic sentence of a paragraph is a generaliztion that summarize the main idea to be demonstred in that paragraph.

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