How to Read

on Courses

Reading Papers

S. Keshav. How to read a paper, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 3(37), 2007.

Three Pass

First Pass

5-10 minutes

First TODO

  1. Read title, abstract introduction
  2. section headings
  3. conclusion
  4. references

First Target

  1. Category: 文章的类型，解决了哪些问题
  2. Context: 哪些文章和本文相关，使用了哪些理论
  3. Correctness: 假设是否合理
  4. Contributions: 有哪些贡献
  5. Clarity: Is the paper well written?

Second Pass

1 hour or longer

对于感兴趣但是不是研究领域的文章，到此为止

Second TODO

  1. 注意文中的图标
  2. 标记相关的reference去read

Second Target

  1. 掌握文章内容
  2. 总结主旨，用支持的证据向他人总结主旨

Third Pass

4-5 hours

virtually re-implement the paper：making the same assumptions as the authors, re-create the work.

making the same assumptions as the authors, re-create the work

思考每一条假设，对比自己的和Paper的，记录新的技巧和idea