The global gist refers to the property or theme that characterises the collection of concepts and their relations within a piece of information as an integral entity. (Neuschatz, Lampinen, Preston, Hawkins and Toglia (2002) The global-level representation reifies people’s interpretations of meanings via a mental framework that organises the relations among the explicitly or implicitly stated notions into a coherent whole, which may also predict further developments in the text (Graesser, Singer & Trabasso, 1994).