This empirical study seeks to better understand the ways in which humans recall text. In 1983 van Dijk and Kintsch proposed a model for text representation that included three different level of text memory. These are memory for: surface features, the text base, and the situation model. This study focuses on surface features and the text base. Surface features of a text are the shape and length of words, the position of words, and the words themselves. The text base of a text can be best describe as the meaning behind the words. According to Kintch et al. (1990) the strength of memory for surface features of a text is very poor only 40 minutes after reading a text, whereas the textbase is still strong and fairly stable across time. This study takes a different look at how recall for a text is determined by comparing a persons recall of their recall of a text to their first recall as opposed to comparing their recall of a text to the text itself.