Tuesday, October 23, 2007

How to read a paper

I recently gave a presentation in CMSC838 (How to do research) on reading scientific papers. Here are my slides, rough as they may be.

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/838/how-to-read-a-paper.pdf

Preparing for this class was quite interesting. I found out that many others have put in their 2c on this matter. I also found this link to one of Steven Salzberg's papers:

http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/scope/keystone1/

The paper is presented in its entirety nicely annotated for the key points. Quite the resource for anyone learning how to read.