A very important part of our scientific research is literature reading! About how to read literature. What to read and how to read it? Combined with my own experience, I think the key here is to let us learn to understand the author's thoughts, viewpoints and scientific methods through this way of learning, and learn from the process of the author discovering, asking and solving problems. An academic paper can be roughly divided into the following eight parts: the title of the paper, the author's name and unit, the Chinese and English abstract of the paper, the introduction or introduction of the paper, the text: it can be one or several sections, conclusions and thanks, references and appendices.

(1) Look at the title of the paper

(2) Look at the author's name and unit.

It mainly depends on whether the author of the paper is an authority or a famous person in this field, or whether the author's unit is in a leading position in this research field, and so on.

(3) See the abstract of the paper

Here, the author basically summarizes and expounds the work done in this paper in the form of summary. Therefore, the abstract of the paper is one of the core parts of the full text. If you understand the abstract, you can basically grasp the whole picture of the paper.

(4) See the introduction or introduction of the paper.

(5) Skip the text and see the conclusion and thanks.

(7) See Appendix.

Generally, it is a supplement to the relevant content of the paper and an extension of the content of the paper. For example, some detailed processes of mathematical derivation, some supplementary results and explanations of experiments, etc. This part will only be used when you need to further understand or supplement the article, and can generally be ignored.

In addition, for general academic papers, after completing the above steps, you can basically complete the reading of the article. Maybe you will ask: Why didn't you read the most critical part-the text? Actually, this is the problem. When I first read a paper, I often get stuck in it, and I can't get through it. For the text, we should distinguish the degree of correlation between this article and your research direction. If the correlation is not very large, there is no need to entangle here, which takes time. Kong first turned to the east.