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  • How to Read a Scientific Research Paper--

    Nice summary of the skills that got me through grad school - but one extra thing - I made a database of terse conclusions from each paper so that I could recall (and quote) info as my thesis progressed :) From the page: "Reading research papers ("primary articles") is partly... more

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  • Rated by PaleApple on Nov 10, 11:37pm

    Research paper stuff

  • Rated by MirandaMcKennitt on Jul 07, 10:20am

    If I need to read a touchie // I get out a little weed // I'm not a little kid you know // When I puff a first puff // I will soon know enuff //

  • Rated by mac888 on Jun 27, 8:08am

    First, go to kindergarten...

  • Rated by warpx on Jun 20, 1:34am

    Sometimes good to know how to work more efficiently with all those papers you have to read for school/university/school

  • Rated by Sabin548 on Jun 17, 1:09am

    Good to know. My head gets all fuzzy and dizzy when trying to read a scientific paper like an abstract about plasma physics... maybe this will help.

  • Rated by CSMastermind on May 15 2009, 8:22am

    Interesting.

  • Reviewed by lostandconfused on Mar 26 2009, 7:59pm

    I don't really have to read scientific journal articles or reports because I'm not in a scientific major, but this advice seems pretty solid, if time-consuming. For more advice on getting through difficult readings efficiently, check out Cal Newport's StudyHacks blog at http://calnewport.com/blog .

  • Rated by smocking on Feb 01 2009, 1:08pm

    Theoretically, this is a good way to read a journal article and if you're a student being asked/ordered to read a specific paper, it's fine. Realistically though, if you work in a field with more than two weekly journals and read papers this way, you're going to miss out on half the interesting stuff because it takes too much damn time to figure out the relevance of a paper this way. Considering the sheer volume of published material right now, I think it's a better strategy to browse journals in your field looking for reasons to dismiss articles as quickly as possible. This is how I read articles on familiar subjects: - Read title and abstract to check relevance. - If relevant, print the article - Work backwards: discussion, results and finally materials and methods; meanwhile you can use a computer to search through the introduction/methods for any unknown terms you run into. - Of course, if at any point the article turns out to be irrelevant, nothing new or otherwise useless, it goes in the bin.