Reading Research Paper

1. Reading Research Paper A “how to” guideline

2. 2 Reading a paper carefully • It takes more than 3 hours to thoroughly read a paper

3. 3 How to read a research paper • Read critically • Read creatively • Make notes as you read the paper • Try to summarize the paper • Compare the paper to other works

4. 4 Making a one-page review • A one or two sentence summary of the paper • A deeper, more extensive outline of the main ideas like assumptions made or arguments presented • Any limitations or extensions you see for the ideas • Your opinion of the paper

5. 5 Types of research papers • Conference papers – shorter papers • Journal papers – longer and more complete

6. 6 While reading the paper • What problem(s) are they solving? • What is the contribution of the work? • Would you have solved the problem differently? • Do all the pieces of their work fit together logically? • What were the results?

7. 7 Moving through the document • Read the title • Read the abstract • Read the introduction • Look the structure of the paper • Read the previous / related work section • Read the conclusions • Read the body of the paper

8. 8 Systematic lecture process • Divide the text into smaller parts and approach one bye one successively • Register the most relevant information • Localize what you don’t understand and clarify it • Recapitulate to integrate

9. 9 Hypertextual relationship between text, footnote and figure

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