Reading session with Stephen (Tony Swain)

Today we had a reading session with Stephen Boyd about a piece of text called 'Tony Swain (narrative deficiencies throughout)'. When I first read through this text I found it really hard to understand, so I went back and broke it down section by section and underline any words that i didn't understand. With the words I didn't understand I researched them in a dictionary and most of the sentences stared to make sense. When reading through this piece of text, it was describing Tony Swains work and what types of mediums he works in. Tony Swain works with newspaper and paint. The text was really interesting because it was saying that paint and newspaper are not normally put together/alongside each other, but in this case Swain uses them both in a way that they start complimenting. Stephen asked us to rate how hard it was to understand the text at the beginning of our talk and we all decided as a group that after having a good thorough read through it, we would give it a 5.5 for difficulty to understand. After we had given it this grade of difficulty, we started to read through certain sections that we didn't understand with Stephen and he explained what they are trying to say in the text. We all realized that there is more to the text than we thought so we would have to raise the difficulty level for understanding higher!
After having that first session of reading with Stephen, I know next time that i need to read through it and then read through it again to make sure I totally understand it fully. This is because in some cases, the text may be saying something simple but in an elaborate way!