When you have a field you want to focus on, you need to know the background of this field first:
You need to read some review articles, which are richer than the literature review in the previous part of the general paper. These articles have strong universality and certain popularity in a certain field. Summarizing the article itself is not an original research achievement in a complete sense. The author of this kind of article is written after reading a lot of literature on this subject. However, the creation of such articles is very important for summarizing the academic trends and research gains and losses in a certain field. By reading the summary article, you can quickly acquire a broader knowledge background system before going deep into more professional technical details. This stage can be said to be your literacy stage before specific research. For example, in the article below, you can see the words "a summary" in the title, which is a summary article.
If you are a student with poor English foundation or a graduate student who has just studied for less than half a year. When reading comments, you can choose to read two good Chinese comments first, which is the entrance for you to quickly understand the field.
Through reading chinese's abstract, we can first understand some basic terms and commonly used research methods. After that, it will be easier to start with foreign language reviews, which will be much faster than reading English reviews directly.
Many students may think that "I can translate directly with translation software", but in fact, the translation software is not accurate, which will make you misunderstand and ambiguous, but will make you more confused. Therefore, the premise of using translation software should be that you have roughly understood some basic theories, terms, research methods and so on.
If you have a good English foundation, I will give you an English article to read directly. Please read the English abstract directly.
If you have been a graduate student for half a year, please force yourself to accept English literature! Read two more articles and you will get used to it!
Besides reading the summary article, you can also read the preface or introduction of China's doctoral thesis. The preface or introduction of the first chapter of China's doctoral thesis, especially in recent years, often contains more information than the abstract. It will introduce the background and related theoretical knowledge in this field in detail, and at the same time, it will often mention the related research directions of several scientific research groups at home and abroad who have done well in this field. In addition, when reading the review, you can record the documents mentioned in the review, and you can also accumulate information for your future reading.
When you define your research field and start doing a certain research, you want to see what others have done in this field, and what conclusions have you drawn:
At this time, you need to find some articles with specific research contents in this field to read. However, it should be noted that when you come into contact with a strange field, it is best to read the paper first and then the academic paper. The doctoral dissertations here are mainly recommended to read doctoral dissertations, and the level of master's dissertations is uneven, which is of little significance. Finding doctoral dissertations must be chosen by the school. The academic papers here mainly recommend reading foreign periodicals. Chinese periodicals are rampant, so it takes time to choose a high-quality article to read. Read the doctoral thesis first, because it is in Chinese, which will make it easier for you to understand this research. When you have a certain understanding of this field, you should read foreign periodicals.