Read what? How to read it? How to remember? How to use it?
Read what?
Students ask questions:
1. How to collect good academic materials and what are the ways?
2. How to judge which documents are good and valuable?
Postdoctoral solution
Early data collection depends on retrieval, and the retrieval circle should be enlarged. Don't worry about wasting time Only by using time can we accumulate more data and information. As for how to judge good or bad, first, subjective standards, documents useful to us, have high natural value; The second is objective criteria, such as the publishing house of monographs, the grade of magazines, others' evaluation of monographs, and the citation rate of a paper.
Subjective standards and objective standards should be combined, but it is not recommended to deliberately distinguish between good and bad. In early learning, the more documents, the better. If you deliberately divide the values between good and bad, it is easy to miss the key content.
Students ask questions: How to retrieve more comprehensive literature? At present, we mainly rely on HowNet and Wanfang to obtain documents. Is there any other way?
Postdoctoral solution
At present, the retrieval of papers in humanities and social sciences is still relatively effective, but HowNet and Wanfang are not very good. It is suggested to search by subject, the first search for journal papers, the second search for master's and doctoral papers, and then turn to the footnotes, endnotes and references of journal papers, master's and doctoral papers in turn, and find monographs from them first. The more monographs appear, the stronger the reference significance.
How to read it?
Student Question: How can we read the literature well and deeply? Grasp the regularity of things?
Postdoctoral solution
The essence of reading needs patience, so slow down your reading and don't rush for success. Deep reading needs to cultivate logic consciously, such as reading a paper. After reading it, you can not only remember your own opinions, but also state the argumentation logic of this paper in your own words.
The so-called regularity is actually the relationship between arguments, arguments and arguments. To cultivate the habit of reflection after reading papers and monographs, why can you ask such a question? Why use these materials to solve problems? Why did you solve the problem in this way? To what extent has it been solved? Is it possible to move on?
Student problem: reading documents, receiving documents is very messy, and I can't stand it.
Postdoctoral answer:
Chaos is because there are too many things to sort out. Read on bravely and classify by drawing a table. We have this process from the beginning, and we can't give up just because we don't understand it. Reading newspapers is not a pastime.
Student problem: In literature reading, it is easy to understand the basic knowledge and main researchers, but it is difficult to learn research methods and research paradigms.
Postdoctoral answer:
Research methods and research paradigms belong to methodology. It is suggested to read the papers describing research methods clearly, summarize some types and characteristics, and then understand them according to similarity.
How to remember?
Student Question: Do different papers need different emphases?
Postdoctoral answer:
For different papers, the focus of recording is different, which basically depends on the type of paper and what you need to get from it. Generally speaking, first, write down documents, mainly data-based papers, such as literature review and conceptual analysis; Second, record data, mainly case analysis and statistical papers; Third, remember the point of view.
The general views in the stage views, summaries and conclusions of each part should be recorded accordingly. Of course, remember that opinions are not an end, but mainly to be able to sort out and understand themselves.
Student question: How to take reading notes?
Postdoctoral answer:
Reading notes mainly record information, data and opinions. Don't copy, remember according to your own reality, and turn the relevant content into your own knowledge.
How to use it?
Student's question: I don't know how to get system information … or where to get useful information.
Postdoctoral answer:
If you are just starting to write a thesis, don't force the system. The system is difficult. It is suggested to cultivate the problem consciousness slowly, that is, to search for information, papers, monographs and documents around a relatively certain theme, and gradually form a familiar information area. Searching for papers will get information about magazines and researchers and find monographs. There are many references behind the monograph, and you can know more subject search words by reading more literatures. This snowballing method, if you persist for a period of time, will get certain results.
Student Question: There are many theories about sensory research. I don't know how to use it well.
Postdoctoral answer:
First imitate how others use it, and then use it appropriately according to the needs of their own papers. Do not stretch hard.