And lastly, prioritize the value you can derive from any paper. Your goal is to learn, and if you can’t derive any value from it you should move on to something else that will. After all, the world needs scientists like you to make the world a better place.
Always remember that reading is learning, and that we should be able to take something from what we're reading. If you can't learn anything from it, then it's value and meaning degrades.
put yourself in the author’s perspective and figure out their train of thought.
I always try to put myself in the authors shoes, and see if I can figure out their mindset at the time they were writing their paper. It helps see the thesis and lessons clearer.
The phrase “key contribution” often indicates a finding that the paper discovers that captures the entire essence of the paper. If present, finding these phrases alone is enough to give you a brief overview of the paper’s work.
I love these! I always try to implicate these key words in my papers, those few words that just give you a feel of the entire paper at once. I love reading papers that have these as well.
It’s true. Even after reading hundreds of papers myself, I still wouldn’t be able to understand everything in one go.
I can never just read a paper once, it always has to be at least two to three times. I have to look at the details, and get a better understanding of what I'm reading. Soak it all up.
The Methods section is more often than not the most technical part of a paper. It describes the procedures that the authors take to solve the problem.
The body paragraphs of any paper are always the most technical, but for me starting off my paper is the most difficult part. After I begin, it just flows.
If you read these 3 sections first, you will find that you’ll be able to have a better sense of what’s going on in the paper. Especially in the technically heavier parts like the Methods section. You’ll also be able to decide if this paper is something that is truly relevant to what you are looking for.
This is so interesting, I think I'll start doing this when I reread my own papers before handing them in. It's a great method!
The Abstract — If provided, this section of a paper gives a general overview of the paper’s content. It’s good to start here first, to sort of “seed” the ideas and concepts of the paper into your head.
When I read other people's papers, I always like to start with the abstract, seeing as starting with that gives me a good overview of what the rest of the paper's about. There's less confusion and a more clear picture of what I'm reading.
To implement papers, we first have to able to read them efficiently.
This is true. Sometimes we get confused when reading one's work, and are quick to say that the writer doesn't make sense, when in reality it could just be the reader that isn't reading thoroughly and correctly.
Months and even years worth of knowledge and experiments are all condensed into the few pages of an academic paper.
I think this is such an amazing thing to think about. How so much research, time and effort into discovering new topics can be put into a few pages.
it may very well be that both the child, and his elder, have concluded that they have nothing whatever to learn from the people of a country that has managed to learn so little.
You can't learn, if no one will teach the right way in the beginning, and you cannot learn from a people that haven't fed themselves first.
The brutal truth is that the bulk of white people in American never had any interest in educating black people, except as this could serve white purposes. It is not the black child's language that is in question, it is not his language that is despised: It is his experience. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance, and enter a limbo in which he will no longer be black, and in which he knows that he can never become white. Black people have lost too many black children that way.
It's the way a black person is treated, and what they've been put through that make a person ask questions. If there was always equality, maybe there wouldn't be as many questions. If people weren't only taught for the benefit of others, maybe there wouldn't be confusion. All children should be taught the same when young, and pushed to turn into accomplished, amazing people. Everyone should have the right to become great, and accept everyone for how they are. We are all part of the human race. No difference.
There have been, and are, times, and places, when to speak a certain language could be dangerous, even fatal. Or, one may speak the same language, but in such a way that one's antecedents are revealed, or (one hopes) hidden.
Speaking Hebrew in Gaza
A Frenchman living in Paris speaks a subtly and crucially different language from that of the man living in Marseilles; neither sounds very much like a man living in Quebec; and they would all have great difficulty in apprehending what the man from Guadeloupe, or Martinique, is saying, to say nothing of the man from Senegal--although the "common" language of all these areas is French. But each has paid, and is paying, a different price for this "common" language, in which, as it turns out, they are not saying, and cannot be saying, the same things: They each have very different realities to articulate, or control.
This reminded me of my Arabic friends. In the Middle East the different Arabic countries all speak Arabic, but in different dialects. I have Egyptian friends, Syrian, Yemeni, Moroccan, Lebanese, Jordanian, etc. They all speak Arabic, but in different dialects because of the influence of the other languages spoken in their regions.
Language, incontestably, reveals the speaker. Language, also, far more dubiously, is meant to define the other--and, in this case, the other is refusing to be defined by a language that has never been able to recognize him.
This really speaks volumes, language reveals who you are as a person, but if you don't recognize your language, then it won't recognize you, and you won't be defined by it. Kind of like if I won't recognize the Russian language, then it won't open up the part of me that's Russian, and all the beautiful connections I have with the Russian language.
or us, the underlying structure of effective academic writing—and of responsible public discourse—resides not just in stating our own ideas but in listening closely to others around us, summarizing their views in a way that they will recognize, and responding with our own ideas in kind.
when we write, it isn't only our writing that helps us become better writers and create the best pieces. when we share ideas with others, and take in their input, we're broadening and opening our minds to limitless options of what we can write about. It turns us into better writers, hearing different peoples aspects on the topic of choice, and giving people your input so they can take it all in and create the best piece of writing.