Literature collation and thesis reading methods

Literature review

1、 Purpose

• Know oneortwo of your own research directions like the back of your hand , Including repeated study of the most important papers , Understand every sentence in the paper , And be able to repeat their experiments .
• I am interested in more research methods , Know their latest progress . In this way, we can know the next research direction , And in the technical exchange , You can share relevant technical papers .

2、 Method

• Sort out the papers you want to read in a field and put them in a file , Including thesis title 、 author 、 Time of publication 、 Place of publication 、 Number of citations in the paper . At the same time, record your reading notes , For example, the important formula in the paper 、 Icon 、 Conclusion 、 And some of my own ideas .
  【 notes 】： The number of citations largely reflects the quality of a paper , Especially if you are not familiar with a new field , It is a good standard to judge whether this paper is worth reading now .
• When there are more papers in a field , You can draw a diagram to connect the more important papers .mermaid Scripting language can automatically generate some connection diagrams , And can be well embedded Markdown.mermaid You can do it yourself Google once , I won't go into details here . The following is mermaid rendering .

How to read a paper

1、 The structure of the paper

• title
• Abstract
• introduction
• Related work
• Method
• experiment
• Conclusion

2、 Method
There are many papers in one field , We can't read every paper from beginning to end . Therefore, you need to read roughly first , Then select a part of the paper for reading , Finally, select several papers for intensive reading .

• skimming ： Focus on the title 、 keyword , Read the abstract , Finally, skip to the conclusion . This is to understand what the paper raises , What method should be used , Then what conclusion is reached . After reading it, you can roughly understand what this paper is doing as a whole . Finally, let's take a look at the data display of the experimental results 、 And the method of this paper . After skimming the whole article, you can know how the proposed method and experimental results are , Is it right for you .
• Read through ： Go over the whole article , From title to conclusion . Understand what each module of the article is doing . At this time, you don't have to pay too much attention to many details , For example, the formula and formula proof in the paper . Mainly focus on the graphs and tables in the paper , For example, the structure of the model and the role of each module 、 Input and output in the experiment , Chart's x-y What does the axis represent 、 The results of experimental comparison . At the same time, the references in this method are marked , For example, which previous document raised a question in the article , Or on the basis of which literature it is improved . If you haven't read these important documents , Just mark it . After reading this time, you can decide whether you need to read further .
• intensive reading ： This is the last time to read the paper , You need to know what to say after every sentence in the paper . This time of reading can do some brain filling , For example, when reading a novel, fill in the plot picture of the novel . When we read the paper carefully, we should complement the realization of the paper , If you were to do this paper, what methods would you use to achieve , Will it be better than now , What would you do about the outlook in the paper . The whole process can be supplemented by the experiment of the paper and your own ideas .

Through three times of reading , You can have an in-depth understanding of a paper , If you need to quote this article or make improvements on this basis when doing your own research later, you can retell it well .

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