{"id":30,"date":"2010-10-02T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/?p=30"},"modified":"2010-10-01T23:08:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T22:08:28","slug":"how-do-i-actually-read-a-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/archives\/30","title":{"rendered":"How do I actually read a paper?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps I’m over-complicating the issue, but I’m finding it really hard to sit down and read papers. I feel like I want to be able to read, take notes, make a mind-map, evaluate and summerise the source all at once. Clearly, not going to happen.<\/p>\n

The process of iteration <\/a>in programming has always come naturally and seemed logical to me. The process of iteration in real life and project managment has not. Design (of a coding project) as an iterative step never really made sense to me until my third-year project ended up being a pile of poo halfway through. Iterative design and coding really made my summer project<\/a> much smoother and enjoyable. Iterative house cleaning (a la flylady<\/a>-style ) keeps our home from being a sty with not too much concentrated hard-graft.<\/p>\n

I need to translate those iterative skills I developed to the process of reading academic papers.<\/p>\n

This resouce sums it up nicely:<\/p>\n

“…the contents of an academic article cannot be grasped by a single reading. You have to engage with it several times – but in different ways.<\/span>” (from http:\/\/www.lenmholmes.org.uk\/students\/how2read\/how2read_b.htm<\/a> <- Good resouce, a bit too indepth but I’d\u00a0 recommend for ESL students)<\/p>\n

Engaging with it several times == iteration.<\/p>\n

So, right now I am going to hop in the bath with my eReader (I’ll be careful \ud83d\ude09 ) and do a first pass over a few papers. I’m not going to do any reviews or make any\/many notes. I’ll do that on another pass.<\/p>\n

Do you have a method or a process that you follow for reading academic stuff? Or are you as lost and resistant as me? Fill up the comments and share where you’re at! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps I’m over-complicating the issue, but I’m finding it really hard to sit down and read papers. I feel like I want to be able to read, take notes, make a mind-map, evaluate and summerise the source all at once. Clearly, not going to happen. The process of iteration in programming has always come naturally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/postgraduatum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}