{"id":5159,"date":"2023-04-14T11:53:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T09:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/keeponteaching\/the-tree-step-strategy-for-reading-scientific-articles\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T11:53:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T09:53:56","slug":"the-tree-step-strategy-for-reading-scientific-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/keeponteaching\/the-tree-step-strategy-for-reading-scientific-articles\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The tree-step-strategy for reading scientific articles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the unaccustomed student, it is easy to drown in details when trying to read scientific text such as research articles. It ends in confusion. The student needs a clear strategy to stick to. Here, Kershav describes a useful three-step method to keep the reader’s head safely above the water’s surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The method is described in the two page long article How to read a paper<\/em> (See the reference below). This model can be useful as a practical starting point when teaching students about reading strategy.<\/p>\n\n

Briefly, the steps are roughly as follows:<\/p>\n\n

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  1. Skim. \n<\/strong>Read the abstract, headings and introduction, then jump to the conclusions. Read them. Take a few minutes to do this. Is this article relevant to me? If so, continue to step 2.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. More details. \n<\/strong>Especially figures, diagrams, illustrations. Make notes for interesting references. Allow this to take no more than an hour. If the article proves useful for you, continue to step 3.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Put yourself in the authors shoes. \n<\/strong>Follow the authors’ own reasoning in detail. Start from their own assumptions and follow how they argue.\u00a0Does it hold? Are there any gaps or areas of weakness?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n

    Reference<\/h4>\n\n

    Keshav, S. (2007). How to read a paper. Computer Communication Review<\/em>, 37<\/em>, 83\u201384.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For the unaccustomed student, it is easy to drown in details when trying to read scientific text such as research articles. It ends in confusion. The student needs a clear strategy to stick to. Here, Kershav describes a useful three-step method to keep the reader’s head safely above the water’s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,323],"tags":[219,345,247],"class_list":["post-5159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-activities","category-tutoring-en","tag-activity-in-the-classroom","tag-reading-academic-texts","tag-teaching-forms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/keeponteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/keeponteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/keeponteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/keeponteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/keeponteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/keeponteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5160,"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/keeponteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions\/5160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/keeponteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/keeponteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/keeponteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}