The methods of looking at foreign literatures by the three Daniel people

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The methods of looking at foreign literatures by the three Daniel people

Guoxihan in 2011-6-27 09:22:46 posted in Biology Show Forum

Ox man One
(from Ph.D to now work half a year, sent 12 paper, 7 first author.) I now keep reading at least 2-3 articles every day. Reading literature has different reading methods. But the most important self summarizes what this article says, otherwise it is white reading, Read the time seems to understand everything, a close on what do not know, this is to read the literature taboo, not only waste time, the most important thing is, did not develop good habits, resulting in later not willing to read the literature.
1. Each time after reading the literature (whether it is a fine reading or rough time), close the literature, think about, the article is the most important take home message is what, if not know, from the abstract,conclusion find, and from the discuss best to confirm. In this way, an article on the border. Take home message is actually not a lot, basically is some concepts, if you find you need to remember a lot, that is often not read to the point.
2. Expand the reading of knowledge, focus on reading introduction, look at the problems raised by others, as well as the current progress of similar articles, read one or two articles a day, within one months, basically a certain direction in this area have a general understanding. Reading good review is OK, but it is easy for people to be lazy.
3. In order to write the reading of the article, read the article, especially when looking at discussion, see good English sentence patterns, it is best to consciously remember, look at the author is who, which article, which journal, so later Tiger write, more efficient. A sentence is much stronger than when I was there half a day. Of course, read more, write more, you need to remember the less sentence patterns. In fact, it is very simple, consciously to summarize and remember billion, it is not easy to forget.

Research Cattle Man II tell graduate students how to read the literature, how to write a paper
First, look at the summary
Read the first review, you can better understand the subject, know what has been done, what to do, and what problems have not been solved. There is a great deal of criticism in the domestic literature. But it is the entrance to your field of study quickly, and after that, you can read the foreign literature more quickly than you would in the beginning to read the foreign literature directly. And the foreign review more for the subject of senior people to write, involving a wide range, can make a person more effective.
Second, there are targeted to select the literature
For your own direction, to find similar papers to read, from which to understand the article to answer what questions, through what technical means to prove, what conclusions? From these articles, understand the research ideas, logical inference, learning technical methods.
1. Keywords and keyword search:
Keywords, keyword must be selected, so that you can ensure that the content of the overall. Because, to change the keyword, you can have new content to appear.
2. Retrieving a scholar:
Search SCI, know a scholar in this field has made achievements, find his recent articles.
3. Reference Survey Search:
If there is a review that is relevant to your subject or has a pointcut, you can find those original research papers based on the relevant references.
4. Note the reference value of the article:
The influence factor of the publication and the cited times of the article can reflect the reference value of the article. But pay attention to the other articles that cite this article to evaluate how this article
Third, how to read the literature
1. Focus on Summary: Abstract can be said to be a paper window. Most articles see abstracts, few articles read the full text. The true usefulness of the full text is not many, excessive pursuit of the full text is a waste, not to go to extremes. Of course, it is not right to look at abstracts. Most of the article title, abstract simple browsing, directly put a few figure and title and legend a look, generally can master most.
2 Read the full text: Reading the first time must be serious, strive to understand the meaning of each sentence, can not check the dictionary is best not to look at the dictionary. Because the purpose of reading a paper is not to learn English, but to obtain information, check the dictionary after the thinking will be very chaotic, often read the full text do not know the so-called. You can mark the words in the process of reading, and then find the meaning after you read the full text.
3. Summarize: Longer articles, easy to forget. Fortunately, although the sentences of the paper are long, but the sentence number of each paragraph is not many, you can each paragraph with a phrase labeled a title.
4. Establish the structure of the sentence, grasp the theme: reading the original English literature has the knack. It is the biggest problem that every word we know is read and we don't know what he is talking about. In the reading time must see a large number of relations conjunctions, they lead the full text of the connecting link. Chinese people like to list the facts, give a point of view and then a large number of facts, which is the characteristics of Chinese literature, we have been reading this article, very suitable. Western literature focuses on logic and reasoning, from beginning to end is very strict, like the GRE inside the reading is the same, is a lot of repetition, the old and new ideas of support and rebuttal, there is a strict outline, especially the better the magazine reflected the more prominent. Reading every paragraph to find his theme is often very easy, a lot of useless information can be around, saving you a lot of valuable time and energy.
5. Increase Reading Volume:
As a result of the new exposure to this field, there is no concept of many problems, reading is very difficult, many of the content is not understood. Later, with the increase in reading volume, the final can be integrated. Therefore, for the novice, should pay attention to the number of reading literature, accumulated more, naturally from quantitative change to qualitative change.
Four Improve the efficiency of reading
1. Focus time to read the literature:
The more time you see the literature, the more time you waste. Focusing time is easier to relate to and form an overall impression.
2. Do the recording and marking:
Copy or print a document, mark or annotate it directly with a pen. PDF or HTML-formatted document, you can use the editor to highlight or change the text color. This is another important means to avoid wasting time. Otherwise it doesn't look.
3. Reading order:
Select the appropriate order for reading purposes. Generally first look at abstract, introduction, and then see discussion, and finally see the result and method (combined chart).
Five, the collation of documents
1. When downloading the electronic document (caj,pdf,html), paste the title of the article as a filename (the file name cannot have a special symbol)
2. Different themes are stored in different folders. The title of the folder should be short, such as: Pd,ltp,pkc,no.
3. Read the literature into sub-folders, at least to the useful and useless separate.
4. Important literature is based on the importance of adding 001,002,003 numbers to the file name and then arranging the icons by name, and the most important documents are in the front line. and important literature should pay attention to tracking. With good luck, you can get more clues, bad luck and find someone else to beat you. Revise your experiment accordingly.
Vi. Writing of English articles (by-products of reading literature)
1. Usually read the literature, pay attention to summarize commonly used sentence patterns and common phrases (note that the author must be a native English speaker, the content of the literature should be related to your professional).
2. Find 3-5 technical routes and statistical methods to close the article with your subject, intensive reading.

Sansan
My English Foundation is not good, did not have six levels, so in the master's time basically looked at the foreign literature few, now think very regret, 2 years of time less learning a lot of things. On the doctor, himself to the positioning of the higher, and began to bite the teeth are reluctant to look at some of the foreign literature, a start to look relatively slow, some difficult to understand, to now about carefully read 100 foreign documents, extensive reading of 100 foreign articles, benefited, and now basically not how to look at the Chinese language, Really also feel that the quality of foreign language is high (also have dine of bad articles), now write their own foreign language is also very handy. Talk about some of your own experience. I'm a material professional.
1. First find 5 Articles with their own paper most relevant to foreign articles, spend one months of time to look seriously, repeated look, request all read, do not understand the place can and classmates and teachers to exchange. You've been on the road one months later.
2. How to read the title: Do not neglect the title of a paper, after reading the title to think of if you want to write how you use a sentence to express the title, according to the title to speculate on what the author's thesis might be. Sometimes a longer headline lets you write, and you may not be able to express it. The next time you write it, you can learn from it.
3. How to read the summary: A quick look over, here is mainly about what this article did. Maybe at first look not understand, do not understand, this time do not be discouraged, no matter it looks down, and so you read this article when you may understand. Because the summary is very concise, omit a lot of premises and conditions, at the first glance to see the summary and do not understand the author's intentions when not understand is normal.
4. How to read the introduction (preface): When you understand some of your research areas, see the introduction should be a very easy thing, are introductory things, write should be similar, so look at the literature after looking at this part of the content is very fast, swept away. Some foreigners write very classic sentence to write down, next time you write can use.
5. How to read materials and tests: When you look at the literature more, this part of the content is very simple, nothing more than to introduce the test method, how do you do the test. You'll be able to finish it soon.
6. How to look at the test results: Look at the results of this part must be combined with the results of the chart and table to see, so look fast. Mainly to understand the results of the experiment, to understand the author's expression method (for example, the author uses different sentence structure to describe the results of some numbers). Sometimes after reading later think about: The result, others can actually write so much, if I could half a page to say?
7. How to look at analysis and discussion: This is the focus of an article, but also the most time-taking. I usually look at the front part of the analysis after reading the discussion. I'm going to figure out how I'm going to write this part of the analysis and discussion if I do these results. Then slowly read the author's analysis and discussion, carefully understand the author's views, for my use. Of course, sometimes other people's views are relatively new, more profound analysis, occasionally do not understand is also reasonable. When you see more, you will certainly see more and more understand, their idea more and more
8. How to see the conclusion: this time to see the conclusion is clear, and then reverse the past to look at the summary, in fact, almost
9. To print out the downloaded papers, according to the relevance of their own topics divided into three categories, a class to be intensive reading, two categories to read, three categories to select the reading. Bound together separately
10. Read the literature must not be left aside, 3-4 months must review again, you can according to the needs of their own test results to see
11. Learn to take notes, important conclusions, classic sentences, elaborate test plans must be written down, for reference and learning
12. Some test methods are the same, and conclusions of different literatures can be critically read. I think if you do a lot of experiments on your own, you should have the ability to judge who is more right. The test method is the same, the conclusion is the following: The test method description is not detailed, the possible methods are different; The test conditions are not the same; some authors exaggerate the results and fabricate the data
13. Have time or more to read the literature, it is better to set a goal: in the academic more than their own boss. Because the boss generally do not read the literature, they are based on experience to do things, many new things they do not know, slowly your boss will think you are very powerful. Anyway, I think read more, read faster, but also will slowly like to see foreign literature, Harvest nature is more.
It is now almost three years since the 05 study began. In this period of time, the experiment did not do a lot, the literature read a lot. The reason, perhaps the boss also found me this person belongs to that kind of above his business person, simply let me make a document reader. From research to now whenever the boss out of a mind, a few key words, well, the next step is to give me to review and collate the literature. We have time to see my hair in the forum of several ppt, about photocatalysis, lead-free piezoelectric ceramics, microwave dielectric ceramics, nano-ZnO, in addition to Raman spectra, multi-ferrous materials ... After all, I can only say that I have seen it, because most of it is just a short talk, no intensive reading-the literature should not be less than three hundred or four hundred articles. I estimate that each direction of a single take out to write a Chinese summary is almost enough, but the Chinese to the layout fee, to come to the boss will not give a lot of nonsense, enter the subject bar. One might ask how you read the literature, especially a strange field that has not been contacted before. My method is to look at the Chinese summary first, then the Chinese doctoral dissertation, then the English review, and finally the English periodical literature. The advantage of this is that through the Chinese review, you can first understand the basic terms of this line, the basic parameters and common methods of preparation and characterization.
I think this is very important, because if the direct English to get started, some of the basic nouns if simple to take for granted translation, often will introduce you to misunderstanding or cause ambiguity. At the same time, a large number of English references should be included in the Chinese summary, which lays a foundation for the subsequent searching of the literature.
The Chinese doctoral dissertation, especially in recent years, contains more information than a summary in the preface or introduction of the first chapter. Because it will introduce in more detail the background of the field and relevant theoretical knowledge, at the same time it will often refer to domestic and foreign in this area to do a good job of the relevant research groups in the study direction. You can clearly clarify a context by reading it.
English reviews, especially those invited paper or published in high-if journals, are often written by cattle in the field. In order to be intensive, we should analyze the structure of the article, especially the author's evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of each direction and the improvement and prospect of the shortcomings. By reading a good English review, it is not only to understand the current development of the field, but also to learn a lot of authentic English expression. Finally, it is to find out the relevant English literature for my own subject. Now the databases in the university libraries are all relatively complete, even if there is no way to obtain the literature through various means on the network. Therefore, the acquisition of documents is not a problem, the problem is to find out what kind of literature and how to read and collate literature. According to my experience, I think there are four types of English literature that we need:
1. The literature of core periodicals in this field. Different research direction has different core periodicals, here also can not be the only theory. For example, Ceramic Core Journal of the United States if the Tao is only 1.5, but the above article especially feature artical is worth reading carefully. Of course, first of all you have to understand what the core journals are, this depends on seniors, bosses or online comrades help each other.
2. Literature in the field of cattle or major research groups. There are several so-called leaders in each field, and the direction they are engaged in often represents the current development mainstream. Therefore, reading the literature in these groups can grasp the current research focus. Someone here might ask, how do I know who the bull is? I personally have two small methods here. The first is in the ISI search in the field of keywords, not too much, so you will find a lot of literature, and then use the refine function of the ISI, you can see which author published a larger number of papers, in principle, generally published a large number of people and research group is the main in this line. There is another way, is to understand the area of the larger international conferences, and then landing the conference organizer's website generally can see the invited speaker name of the Conference, as the invitation to report the reporter is generally in the line gravitated people, hehe
3. High citations of articles. In general, high citations (if not by self-lead heap) articles are relatively classic articles, or better ideas, or better material performance, while its writing should also be good words. Read this article, understand the author's understanding of the structure of the article and the processing of chart analysis, I believe there are many things to understand.
4. Finally, when you have a certain background, start to do experiments and prepare to write the papers need to read the literature. My personal experience is, first of all, to be clear about what the experiment you are trying to solve? is the improvement of the original material or the creation of a new material or a new preparation method, or the use of new means of characterization or calculation method. With this in mind, you can find the documentation you need. And often when you find an article that is similar to your research direction, through ISI, you can find references to it and the literature it references, thus creating a document tree and acquiring more information.
In addition, the point I want to mention is the collation of the document. Most of the time the literature is very blind, holding a kind of thought that comes down first. Often come down a lot of documents, but just empty the space occupied by the disk. The literature that is not collated is not its own literature, what is the classification according to what?
I have a relatively simple and practical way to apply to those who have a large amount of unread literature. Just care about three points: the last part of the preface of the article (which is generally the reason why the author should do the work, the basis and the method), the chart in the article (presenting the method of characterization and performance changes) and conclusions (whether to achieve the stated goals and whether the need for improvement). Of course, if all the intensive reading believe that the workload is not small. My view is to use as much as 50 words to summarize the article, White is the purpose of the article (such as improving some performance or proposing a method) + characterization means (such as Xrd,ir,tem) + main conclusions (such as product performance). When you summarize dozens of articles according to this method, naturally there will be a general understanding, and then according to your notes to classify the document, when you write a paper to explain the reference and then back to the intensive reading, I think this will improve a lot of efficiency.

The methods of looking at foreign literatures by the three Daniel people

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