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The purpose of a main idea is to meet standard publishing guidelines show what the overall story is about make readers spend more time analyzing give people something to write about

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The correct answer is B. show what the overall story is about

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The purpose of a main idea is to "show what the overall story is about". At this stage of the process, details are usually left out for the most part. 
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