how to read paper

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每次读论文的时候，总感觉迷糊。看完之后还是发现脑子里面空空的。收获似乎不是很大。好好总结了一下，同时在网上找了下别人总结的方法。贴在下面：

那其实还是对整个领域不熟的原因造成的
一篇文章其实创新点就那么一小块，其他的都是废话，
所以如果比较熟悉整个领域的话，扫一眼就能知道这篇文章与前人有什么不同了，
再看看图和表，以及参考文献，就可以了。

所以先别钻得太深精读，先把这个领域的重要的几个人在重要杂志上发的文章
先全下下来，然后看大家都在说什么问题。然后从老的到新的开始翻。看谁是继承
了谁的观点以后发展出来的思路，谁又和谁意见不同。然后再精读应该就可以
明白得快一些吧。

下面是一篇文章，可以借鉴一下：

HOW TO READ A PAPER FROM THE PRIMARY ECOLOGICAL LITERATURE


by Michael Palmer August 28, 1994
modified after notes by James Thompson, SUNY

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1) Do not read a paper chronologically! Read it in the following order:

a) Author's names and year
b) Introduction
c) Abstract
d) Discussion
e) Results
f) Methods

Item a) above sounds unusual - why not read the title? It turns out that peo
ple are very important. Ecologists generally refer to a paper by the author'
s names and the year, and often forget the title. Make a habit of looking fo
r the author's institutional affiliation. This will help you learn where the
major centers of research are in various aspects of ecology.

Read b) through d) repeatedly as necessary. These sections usually define th
e intellectual context of the paper. They will also stress the implications
and the relevance the author believes his/her work has for the wider scienti
fic community.

Read e) and f) to evaluate the work technically. Do the experiments prove or
indicate what the authors claim they do? Are there major limitations? Then
read the discussion again. Do not be preoccupied with details. The detail is
presented to allow highly expert readers to evaluate the technical quality
of the research. This detail is not generally easily interpretable by people
new to the field, and is often not relevant to understanding the more impor
tant scientific objectives and the strategies of the authors.


2) Decide exactly which technical details are relevant to understanding the
author's argument. Then study those particular details. It may be necessary
at this point to consult other primary and secondary literature to retrieve
critical details. The author will cite such literature (if they have not, th
e paper never should have been published!)


3) Analyze the paper by answering the following questions to your satisfacti
on:

a) What is the argument of the author(s)? Remember, the author would usually
not be writing a paper in less there was some message she or he wishes to s
ay.

b) What experimental strategies did the authors use to achieve their objecti
ves? Only describe the most relevant details.

c) Do you believe the evidence is conclusive or merely suggestive?

鸢夜

写英语欺负咱们中国农民是不？真是不上道哦。要照顾一下众多没过四级以及过了也跟没过一样的同胞们，好歹你也是在说汉语写中文的地盘上。拜托您先翻译一下，如何？

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下面是引用鸢夜于2005-03-10 23:32发表的:
写英语欺负咱们中国农民是不？真是不上道哦。要照顾一下众多没过四级以及过了也跟没过一样的同胞们，好歹你也是在说汉语写中文的地盘上。拜托您先翻译一下，如何？

晕，看论文如果英语太烂的话。。。

估计看论文方法问题先不用学，先还得补补基本功～～

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