The ability to think independently, ability to reason, to see the investigative causal relationships and be able to express their thoughts is not given to man by birth. This study and learn for a long time. As practice shows, a man who knows how to think, knows how to generate questions and answers - are more successful and more open to the flow of new information. The ability to write to the author opens up a completely different world, a world of crazy fantasies, deep thoughts, and global ideas. But what to do when the problem is not whether to dive into this world and to write an essay, and read someone else and understand it? How to define for the shortest possible time is what the author says?
Focus. Take a comfortable position, tune, prepare a notebook and pen. Read the headline text. Sometimes this is enough to understand what will be discussed, and whether we need to work with the text on. If paragraph 2 does not help understand the theme of the composition, so carefully read the text and identify the author's style. Remember that there are texts. Perhaps this is a work of art. Perhaps this research paper or essay. You must be prepared for the fact that the topic is unlikely to be traced clearly in a literary text. Most likely, you have to work with the text, to reflect, analyze, manage to find a causal action.The texts of essays and reflections to work easier. Since the theme of the works have already formulated and hides in a single sentence. Search for this offer is worth just in the first paragraph, or towards the end of the text. Although experience shows that the first author simply leads to the topic, then gives arguments, draws conclusions, and it leads us to what we're looking for - the theme of the works.
In scientific texts or texts for analysis as simple as that. Usually works theme is hidden in the first sentence and then goes just an argument or reasoning.