The document discusses how to effectively analyze and understand complex texts. It emphasizes the importance of close reading, looking at details, and revisiting the text multiple times to develop a deeper understanding of the main ideas and intended message. Readers are encouraged to slow down, notice sensory details, and describe what they see from their own perspective in order to find hidden meanings and layers within a text, similar to how more triangles can be discovered the longer one looks at a picture.

1. Description
Don’t tell me, show me.
What do you see?
It’s all in the details.

4. Perspective
What you see is what you project.
We find what we know to look for.
Can you help me see through your eyes?

7. Details
Depth is created through details.
You shouldn’t see everything at first glance.
Look closely. Describe what you see with more features: sensory information.

9. More than Meets the Eye
A good story develops in layers.
Good stories don’t give it all away up front.
They make the reader want to look closer—to develop a relationship with the text.

13. Any complex text tells a kind of story. It’s main idea
is like the moral of the story—what the artist or
author is trying to show you, teach you, give you.
Look here: how many triangles can you find?
Each time, you will probably find more than the
last.
Likewise, to read a text well, you have to look
closely, more than once, and know that your first
guess at what it means or says is only a partial
understanding. You get closer to the intended
message the more times you read it.
Did you find them all yet?
More than 20? 30? 40?
Describe how you found them:
Don’t just tell me, show me.