How to read paper efficiently

1. Niu Ren
(From PhD to now, I have published 12 paper articles and 7 first author articles .)

I still keep reading at least 2-3 documents every day. reading documents has different reading methods. however, the most important thing is to summarize what this document has said. Otherwise, it will be a white read. It seems that when I read it, I will understand everything, this is a taboo for reading documents. It is a waste of time. The most important thing is that you have not developed good habits and will not be willing to read documents in the future.
1. every time you read the document (whether you read it carefully or roughly), close the document and think about it. What is the most important take home message in the article? If you don't know it, find it from abstract and conclusion, it is recommended that you confirm it from discuss. in this way, an article passes through. there are actually not many take home messages, basically some concepts. If you find that you need to remember a lot, it is often not focused.
2. expand the knowledge of reading, focus on reading introduction, reading people's questions, and the current progress of similar articles, read one or two articles a day, in a month, I have a rough understanding of a certain direction in this field. reading a review is also good, but such a person is easy to be lazy.
3. to read articles, read articles, especially discussion, and read good English sentence patterns, you 'd better consciously remember who the author is and which article, which journal will be more efficient in the future. it is much better than thinking about a sentence while you are there. of course, the more you read and write, the fewer sentence patterns you need to remember. in fact, it is very easy to consciously sum up and remember hundreds of millions of records.

 

2. A researcher, Niu Ren, tells graduate students how to read documents and write papers.
I. first look at the summary
First, read the summary to better understand the subject, know what has been done, what you have to do, and what problems have not been solved.
There are many voices for domestic literature criticism. however, it is the entry point for you to quickly learn about your research field. After that, you can read the foreign literature more quickly than simply reading the foreign literature. The Overseas review is mostly written by senior persons in this discipline and involves a wide range of topics, which can help people get twice the result with half the effort.
2. Select appropriate documents
Looking for similar papers in your own direction, understanding what questions are answered in the article, and using technical means to prove what conclusions are there? From these articles, we will understand the research ideas, logical inferences, and learning technical methods.
1. Keyword and subject search:
You must select keywords and keywords to ensure that the content you want is comprehensive. Because you can change the subject to a new one.
2. retrieve a scholar:
Query Sci. He knows a scholar who has made achievements in this field and asks him for his recent article.
3. Search by reference:
If you have a review related to your own subject or have a starting point, you can find the original research papers based on the relevant references.
4. Pay attention to the reference value of the article:
The influence factors of publications and the number of cited articles can reflect the reference value of the articles. However, pay attention to how other articles that reference this article evaluate this article.
Iii. How to read documents
1. Focus on Abstract: abstract is a window of the paper. Most articles read the abstract and a few articles read the full text. There are not many useful full texts. It is a waste to pursue the full text. Of course, reading the abstract is not correct. After a simple view of the topics and summaries of most articles, you can view several figures, titles, and legend. Generally, you can master most of them.
2. Read the full text through: Read the full text carefully for the first time, and try to understand the meaning of each sentence. If you do not want to look up the dictionary, it is best not to look up the dictionary first. Because the purpose of reading a thesis is not to learn English, but to obtain information, it is very confusing to look up the dictionary, and I often do not know the full text. You can mark the words during the reading process and find the meaning after reading the full text.
3. Conclusion: long articles are easy to forget. Fortunately, although the sentences in the paper are long, there are not many sentences in each segment. You can use a phrase to mark a title for each segment.
4. Establish the sentence architecture and grasp the topic:
There are tips for reading the original English document. Every word has been read, but we don't know what he is talking about. This is the biggest problem. When reading, you must see a large number of relational joins. They have taken the lead in the full text. Chinese people like to list facts and give them a point of view, followed by a large number of facts. This is also a feature of Chinese literature. We have been reading such articles since childhood and are very adaptable. The document of Westerners focuses on logic and reasoning. It is very strict from the beginning to the end, just like reading in GRE. It carries out a large number of repetitions, support and refuting of old and new ideas, there are strict outlines, especially the more prominent a good Magazine is. It is often easy to find the topic of each segment. A large amount of useless information can be moved along, saving you a lot of valuable time and energy.
5. Increase the reading volume:
As I have just been in touch with this field, I have no idea about many problems, so it is very difficult to read and understand many contents. Later, as the reading volume increases, the data can be integrated. Therefore, for new users, they should pay attention to the number of reading documents, and the accumulation of documents will naturally change from quantitative development to qualitative change.
4. Improve reading efficiency
1. concentrated time to view documents:
The more time the document is viewed, the more time the document is wasted. Concentrated time is more easily linked to form an overall impression.
2. Record and mark:
Documents copied or printed are directly marked or annotated with a pen. Document in PDF or HTML format can be highlighted or changed in the text color in the editor. This is another important way to avoid wasting time. Otherwise, you will not see it.
3. Reading sequence:
Select the appropriate sequence based on the reading purpose. Generally, read abstract and introduction first, then view discussion, and finally view result and method (combined with charts ).
5. Document Sorting
1. When downloading the electronic document (CAJ, PDF, HTML), paste the article question as a file name (the file name cannot have special characters)
2. Store different topics in different folders. The folder question should be brief, such as PD, LTP, PKC, and no.
3. The documents you have read should be classified into subfolders, at least to separate useful and useless documents.
4. Add the 001,002,003 number before the file name based on the importance of important documents, and arrange the icons by name. The most important documents are listed at the beginning. Pay attention to tracking important documents. If you are lucky, you can get more clues. Correct Your experiment accordingly.
6. Writing English articles (by-product of reading documents)
1. Read the documents and summarize frequently used sentence patterns and phrases (note that the authors of the documents must be English-speaking, and the document content should be related to your major ).
2. Find 3-5 articles about the technical route and statistical methods that are close to your subject and read them carefully.

 

 

3. Niu rensan
This person has a poor basic in English and has not passed cet6. Therefore, when I was in my master's degree, I basically read very little foreign literature. Now I think I regret it. I have learned a lot less in 2 years. When I got to my doctor, I had a higher position for myself. I began to look at some foreign documents, even though I was reluctant to bite my teeth, some of them are hard to understand. Up to now, I have carefully read about 100 documents in foreign languages and extensively read 100 documents in foreign languages. I have benefited a lot. Now I am not very familiar with Chinese, I really think that the quality of foreign languages is high (there are also bad articles), and now I am very comfortable writing Foreign Languages myself. Let's talk about some of your own experiences. I am a material specialist.
1. I will first look for five foreign articles most relevant to my thesis. I will spend a month to read them carefully and read them over and over again. If I don't understand them, I can contact my classmates and teachers. You will be on the road in a month.
2. how to read the title: do not ignore the title of a paper. After reading the title, think about how to express the title in one sentence. Based on the title, Let's guess what the author's paper may be. Sometimes you may not express a long title. You can use it for reference next time.
3. How to read the Abstract: view it quickly. Here we will mainly introduce what this article has done. It may seem hard to understand or understand at the beginning. Don't be discouraged at this time. You may understand it when you finish reading this article. Because the abstract is concise and many prerequisites and conditions are omitted, it is normal for you to understand the abstract at first glance and not understand the intent of the author.
4. how to read the introduction: When you understand some situations in your research field, it is easy to read the introduction. It is all introductory, I should have written almost all of them, so when I read more documents, I quickly scanned them. Some foreigners write very classical sentences to write down, and you can use them next time.
5. How to read materials and experiments: When you read more documents, this part of the content is also very simple. It is nothing more than introducing the experiment method and how to do the experiment yourself. I can see it soon.
6. view the test results: You must view the results based on the graphs and tables in the results. I mainly understand the results of the experiment and understand the expression of the author (for example, the author uses different sentence structures to describe the results of some numbers ). Sometimes, after reading this article, let's think about it: as a result, someone else can write so much space. If it is possible for me to finish half a page?
7. Analysis and Discussion: This is the focus of an article and the most time-consuming. I usually don't rush to look at the analysis and discussion after reading the previous sections. How can I write the analysis and discussion about these results? Then I will take a closer look at the author's analysis and discussion, and carefully understand the author's point of view for my use. Of course, sometimes others' opinions are relatively new and deeply analyzed. It is also reasonable to understand them occasionally. When you read more, you will certainly understand more and more about your idea.
8. How to look at the conclusion: At this time, we can see the conclusion at a Glance. After the conclusion is made, we can look back at the abstract. In fact, it's almost the same.
9. Print the downloaded papers and classify them into three categories based on their relevance: Intensive Reading, extensive reading, and selective reading. Respectively bound together
10. Do not leave the documents you have read aside. You must review the documents in 3-4 months. You can compare your test results as needed.
11. Learn to take notes, important conclusions, classic sentences, and elaborate test plans for reference and study.
12. Some articles with the same method and different conclusions can be critically read. If you do more experiments on your own, you should have the ability to determine who is more right. When the test method is the same, the reasons for different conclusions are as follows: the test method description is not detailed, and the methods may be different; the test conditions are different; some authors exaggerate the results and write data.
13. If you have time to read more documents, you 'd better set a goal: to surpass your boss in academic fields. Because the boss generally does not read documents, they do things based on experience, and they do not know many new things. Your boss will think you are amazing.
Anyway, I think it is faster to read more, and I will gradually enjoy reading foreign literature, which naturally leads to more gains.