Shen Xiangyang reads scientific papers

Shen Xiangyang, Hua Gang: Three levels, four stages and ten questions of reading scientific research papers

• Three levels
  • Speed ​​reading (–" negative reading)
    • title
    • Summary
    • introduction
  • Intensive reading (critical reading and creative reading)
  • Study
    • Negative, questionable, faulty
    • What can creative thinking do
    • recurrent
• four stages
  • Passive reading
    • I probably know what the article says
  • Active reading
    • Actively think about the use of this knowledge
  • Critical reading
    • Thinking about whether this article makes sense
    • Ask someone for help when you don’t have enough knowledge. Find more background knowledge to read, take more notes, and read more related papers. Read through again and get over the difficulties.
  • Creative reading
    • Find out how the article will help the next work
    • What are the good ideas in the article, generally one, and the best one is 2.5.

• Three important skills during graduate school
  • read
  • writing
  • Show off

Traits of a good researcher:

1. open-minded
2. hard wroking
3. updating his/her knowledge by following the current literature, and exchanging ideas with colleagues
4. resourceful and inventive to transform his/her scientific queries and hypotheses into a realisable protocol

Reasons why the paper is difficult to read:

1. The author is not good at English
2. Readers need to have a deep reserve of background knowledge on the subject of the paper
3. I don’t know where to ask for help when I encounter difficulties.
4. Who to ask for advice after reading.
5. Can't concentrate for a long time and interfere too much with temptation.
6. Paper writing and reading are two one-way processes, similar to encoding and decoding. Paper reading is more an iterative process of understanding.

Classification of papers:

1. Problem essay
2. Problem-solving essay
3. Explanatory and investigative essays
4. Summary essay