This document provides guidance on how to effectively read and evaluate research papers. It recommends beginning by scanning the abstract, introduction, and conclusion to determine if the paper contains interesting information. If so, the next step is to identify which sections contain the key ideas. Finally, carefully read the entire paper while considering questions about how the ideas could be applied, evaluated, and extended. The document also provides tips on where to search for papers, managing references, and common paper components to examine like related work, new contributions, evaluations and assumptions.