FINDING DETAILED INFORMATION Finding detailed information means discovering specific information contained in a text. First thing first, we have to understand supporting details. A text usually contains a main idea and a few supporting details. Main idea is the big idea that is used to develop a text. Supporting detail is additional ideas that support and elaborate the main idea (e.g. facts, steps, or other evidence elaborating the main idea). This elaboration part is usually the part that deals with the questions of finding detailed information. The questions itself are always around the 5W+1H ; What Where When Who Why How Tips in Finding Detailed Information Read the question first before you read the whole text. Know what you are looking for. Know the keyword. Skimming : find the main discussion Scanning : find specific information Match several keywords between the text and the answer choices. EXAMPLE “Oven” is the umbrella and broad term for a kitchen appliance that uses heat to cook food. The appliance itself dates back to the prehistoric times when different civilizations tried to cook food with fire. The oven primarily uses a thermal insulation method to cook food. The appliance also provides a variety of cooking methods to a large number of food items. Almost any kind of food, whether it be a meat, vegetable, or fruit dish can be made with an oven. It can boil, bake, or roast any food item. Also, it can reheat large quantities of food. FINDING DETAILED INFORMATION 1 Types of ovens can be classified into many categories. Cooking ovens can include: conventional oven, convection oven, earth oven, gas oven, and microwave oven. As an appliance, the oven can also be used for special purposes like pottery, forging, glass-making, ceramics, cements, and wood drying. How did ovens first emerge in our society? A. It emerges from the variety of cooking methods to cook a different kind of food item, such as meat, vegetable, and fruit. B. The conventional oven, convection oven, earth oven, gas oven, and microwave oven first emerged to our society. C. The varied usage of ovens as pottery, forging, glass-making, ceramics, cements, and wood drying is encouraging its emergence. D. The people in prehistoric generations tried to cook with fire back then and it urged the emergence of ovens. E. The need to cook any kind of food like meat, vegetable, or fruit dish urged the making of ovens. Steps to answer the question: 1. Look at the question first: "How did ovens first emerge in our society?” The question asks for a correct statement about how the oven emerged. 2. Do the skimming technique, you will quickly find the main discussion on the text and get the general idea about what happened back then and how people started using the oven. Which is explicitly mentioned in "The appliance itself dates back to the prehistoric times when different civilizations tried to cook food with fire." It can be seen that the correct answer is D (The appliance itself dates back to the prehistoric times when different civilizations tried to cook food with fire). Note that option D has the same meaning on how an oven is emerged. FINDING DETAILED INFORMATION 2
