Chapter seven summaries CRCB ENG75

Inference is the process of making assumptions, and drawing conclusion about information when an author’s opinion or ideas are not directly stated. So this chapter will teach you how to read textbooks and other material so you can pull more meaning from them, it focuses on strategies that will help you draw conclusions from your reading…an authors diction, or choice of words, is significant when you are trying to work out exactly what he means. There are strategies will help you to effectively infer meaning when an author does not directly state his main points, understand the author reason for writing , note comparisons and implied similarities to illustrate and explain an unfamiliar situation, understand an authors use of tone, the tone that an author use to discuss the subject matter, detect an authors bias by picturing the person with whom you are having a textbook conversation, and recognize information gaps by reading the entire textbook, noting the authors use of key words and phrases. One problem will occur for students is how much to infer, recognize an authors perspective and use the text to support your conclusion are a solution to prevent infer too much.