While reading the lines,
we focus on ideas an information directly stated in the text.
While reading between the lines, we analyse and
infer meaning not directly stated in the text.
When we infer meaning from a text,
we go beyond the directly stated ideas and look for hidden meanings.
Such reading involves creating personal meaning
by combining what is read with relevant prior knowledge.
For example, when a friend tells you,
I cannot come to your party, you can interpret this literally
to mean that she is unable to come to the party because she has another arrangement.
Or you can infer that she does not want to come to your party
because she doesn't like you.
When you read beyond the lines, we apply ideas in the text
to new situations and draw generalizations.
This type of reading involves the persons
of bringing together a number of different sources and
connecting background knowledge with the ideas presented by the author in the text.
As a scholar, you're required to go beyond basic comprehension of the text.
When you read a scientific article, you do not only need to
understand the information explicitly stated in the texts, but
also how to be able to interpret, generalize and draw your own conclusions.
Once you have read to text carefully,
you need to ensure that you have correctly understood what you had read,
there are a number of useful techniques for testing your comprehension.
This techniques include the folding, annotating texts,
when you read making notes helps concentration in order to make notes,
you must understand the text.
Annotating a text helps you reflect on and react to ideas in the text
by understanding important points, or scribbling comments in the margins.
You begin to use interpretive strategies that give
insight into the what you make meaning out of the text.