Chapter 7 (Using inference to identify implied Main ideas)

Chapter summary
College instructors requier you not only to read and understand what is explicitly stated on the page, but also to detect ideas that re implied or indirectly stated. In order to fully understand a reading assignment, you need to read the material and combine what is stated with the additional information you generate using inference as a tool. While inference is a skill you practice everyday, inferring meaning from textbooks and other college reading material requires you to use specific strategies such as detecting an author's bias, noting comparisons, and reconizing information gaps. You also need to understand how an author's purplse, tone, and use of key words and emotive language can be usedas clues to his or her implied main idea. There are limits to what you can infer, and you should use other information in a reading to check if your conclusions are accurate.