“To comprehend a text,” wrote Dr. Merlin C. Wittrock in the 1980s, “we not only read it, in the nominal sense of the word, we construct a meaning for it.” In this complex process, “readers attend to the text. They create images and verbal transformations to represent its meaning. Most impressively, they generate meaning as they read by constructing relations between their knowledge, their memories of experience, and the written sentences, paragraphs and passages.”
