CHAPTER 4- INFERENCES: WHAT FOLLOWS?

The word infer means 1) To derive by reasoning, 2) To conclude, 3) To guess. When we infer we use imagination or reasoning to provide explanation for situations where all the facts are either no available or not yet determined. Report writing or descriptive writing lets the facts speak for themselves. Inference can be used in descriptive writing to tie facts together. Facts and inference are linked together through generalizations. Generalizing too soon befor we have gathered a lot of facts is bad we should learn how to draw generalizations that can be supported.