Good readers know how to get the main idea from Post opinion very quickly, probably within one minute. They use different methods, but the most common is probably something like this one: (1) Read the headline(2) Read the first paragraph(3) Read the last one or two paragraphs(4) Form a theory of what the main idea is(5) Test your theory by quickly skimming the beginnings of the remaining paragraphs. Let's try this with an e that appeared in the Bangkok post on November 29, 1995. First let's look at the headline, the first paragraph and the last two paragraphs: