A guide on how to read a paper

1. Nadhif Muhammad Rekoputra
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2. There is something called a three-pass approach
1.First Pass
2.Second Pass
3.Third Pass
Approach

3. Do a quick scan
1.Get the title, abstract, and introduction
2.Read the section heading and sub-section
heading
3. Read the conclusions
4. Glanes trough the references
First Pass

4. After this you should be able to know
1. The paper category
2. The context this paper use
3. Does the assumptions in this paper is correct ?
4. What are the paper main contributions ?
5. Is the paper clarify it’s point enough ?
First Pass

5. After knowing all that you can figure out to
1. Interesting or not ?
2. Clear or not ?
3. In your area or not ?
First Pass

6. Read about
1. Look and understand the figures
2. Mark relevant references
Second Pass

7. After knowing all that the question you have is
Second Pass
When finish you should be able to
1. Grasp the content of the paper
2. Summarize the paper with supporting evidence

8. Here you need to read about
1. Everything on the paper
Third Pass

9. After knowing all that you should be able to
1. Reconstruct the entire structure of the paper from memory,
2. Identify it’s strong and weak points
Third Pass

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