Download or read book Situation Models and Levels of Coherence written by Isabelle Tapiero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mental representation of what one reads is called a "situation model" or a "mental model." The process of reading causes an interaction of the new knowledge with what is already known. Though a number of theories and models have been proposed to describe this interaction, Tapiero proposes a new model that assumes a variety of storage areas to p