How To Read An Academic/Research Paper
How to Read an Academic/Research Paper
The main sections are:
Abstract: a general overview of the paper’s content. It’s good to start here first, to sort of “seed” the ideas and concepts of the paper into your head.
Introduction: the general overview and setting of the paper. Sometimes you’ll find brief descriptions of key concepts or phrases
Methods: Read at the end, the technical jargon might be too heavy to for your to read this first.
Results:
Conclusion/Interpretation/Discussion: the hypothesis is either accepted or rejected. Reading the conclusion can help you decide if you want to spend your time reading the paper or not if you are looking for a specific method of doing something.
References: Read to familiarize yourself with the common titles, sources, and theories.
Tip: Read the Intro, and conclusion before you read the rest of the paper, its the fastest way of knowing what’s in the paper.
Look out for the keywords key contribution and significant.
Step by Step instructions:
Read Intro and Conclusion
Identify the big question - what is this paper about?
Summarize the background in five sentences - why is this research important?
Identify specific questions - What exactly are the authors trying to answer with their research.
Read methods
Read results and write down a sentence to summarize the result of each experiment.
How do the results answer the specific question?
Read the conclusion section - Do the authors think that the results answered the big question?
Now read the abstract - did it match what happened?
Sources:
https://medium.com/ai-saturdays/how-to-read-academic-papers-without-freaking-out-3f7ef43a070f
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-raff/how-to-read-and-understand-a-scientific-paper_b_5501628.html
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