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p. 5 1. a main idea
2. reasons or details that develop the idea
The main idea most often appears in the first sentence of a paragraph.
Note: The first sentence provides the definition of integrity, but it is not the main idea of the
selection. If it were the main idea, the selection would consist of a number of examples of integrity. In fact, the
material in the selection is devoted to showing how “being honest is not always easy.”