【笔记】《How to read a Paper》如何阅读一篇文献

Author：S. Keshav （David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada keshav@uwaterloo.ca）
（读于2017/11/26）

3 Passes 三遍阅读法

1st pass 略读(5~10min):

1. 仔细阅读（carefully）:标题、摘要、简介
   1. title
   2. abstract
   3. introduction
2. Section & sub-section headings…各章节标题
3. Conclusions 结论
4. Answer 5 Cs: 回答5个C
   1. Category 文章的类别
   2. Context 背景，基础知识
   3. Correctness 正确性
   4. Contributions 贡献
   5. Clarity 清晰度

2nd pass (1 hour): Grasp the content

1. ignore details (e.g. proofs) 忽略细节
2. jot down the key points 记下一些关键点
3. make comments in the margins 在边页上做注释
4. Pay special attention to graphs（Error bars?）关注图表、误差条
5. Mark relevant unread references 标记相关待读参考文献
6. Be able to summarize the main thrust 能够总结文章核心
7. If can’t understand, options: 如果不太能明白可以尝试：
   1. set aside 先搁置不管
   2. return later 之后再回来看
   3. persevere and go on to the 3rd pass 坚持进行第三遍阅读

3rd pass 复现式(for beginners， 4-5hours):

• Virtually re-implement
  • make the same assumptions as the authors, re-create the work
  • identify and challenge every assumption in every statement
  • How I would present a particular idea？

• Jot down ideas for future work
• by the end:
  • reconstruct the entire structure
  • identify its strong and weak points
  • pinpoint implicit assumptions, missing citations to relevent work, potrntial issues with experimental or analytical techniques.

Doing a literature survey

• Google Scholar, CiteSeer

• Well-chosen keywords–3~5 recent papers in the area

• Do 1 pass on each, then read their related work sections

  • If lucky, an already written survey maybe found.

• Shared citations and repeated author names

• Websites of the key researchers, their recent publication

• Website for the top conferences. recent proceedings

References:
[1] T. Roscoe, “Writing Reviews for Systems Conferences,” http://people.inf.ethz.ch/troscoe/pubs/reviewwriting.pdf
[2] H. Schulzrinne, “Writing Technical Articles,” http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ hgs/etc/writingstyle.html.
[3] G.M. Whitesides, “Whitesides’ Group: Writing a Paper,” http://www.che.iitm.ac.in/misc/dd/writepaper.pdf.
[4] ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Online, http://www.sigcomm.org/ccr/drupal/.