Reading and Reviewing

Motivation： 如何阅读文献，如何评价文献，亘古不变的话题。
如何读文献。
Read and understand all the significantly related scientific literatures. Understand the current theory, discoveries, and debates. Summarize the content to the background section & discussion section.
Small and Large. Small to know well; Large to read. 如果总结一下，下面这句。
Browsing to find papers and get an overview of activity and to understand the main outcomes in a body of work; background reading of texts and popular science magazines; and thorough, focused reading of key or complex papers that stretch your abilities or the limits of your understanding.
读综述，但是在引用以及讨论一篇论文的时候，还是要读原文。
在搜索文献的时候，除了直接搜索关键字，follow references，还有几点：check the related research groups; check the journals & conference papers; talk to as many people as possible. --- all for refining the current knowledge.
对于不同版本的论文，注意citation
all, significant. 建议不同时阅读和搜索，如果遇到了"your original idea is not so original"，那就不要做重复工作啦。
uncritically gather material and then later critically analyze and categorize. 
筛选论文
work that is more than one or two years old and has not been published in a significant venue probably has some serious defect.
吐槽research，但我觉得有common sense应该都能察觉到（至少别人的错误吧。e.g. dataset is too tiny --- never Python. 注意“few papers are perfect”。这点是要反思的" In short,  don’t accept something as true just because it was published. "
People investigate problems that are already solved and well understood, or solve problems that technology has made irrelevant, or don’t realise that the proposed improvement actually makes the method worse
Some questions to ask:
• Is there a contribution? Is it significant? • Is the contribution of interest? • Are the results correct? • Is the appropriate literature discussed? • Does the methodology actually answer the initial question? • Are the proposals and results critically analyzed? • Are appropriate conclusions drawn from the results, or are there other possible interpretations? • Are all the technical details correct? Are they sensible? • Could the results be verified? • Are there any serious ambiguities or inconsistencies?
最后 Write down analysis of the paper.
如何写Literature Review
目前的做法是对每一篇论文写note，但是我过于注重技术细节，大体上有几点suggestions可以参照：1, summarize each paper's contribution; 2, summarize the evidence used to support the claims; 3, the shortcomings; 4, How to do better. // key guidance: Relation, Influence. // To be as inclusive as possible.
Contribution
originality, validity. Influence.
问自己一个问题，这篇文章会有多大的影响？
Ask the right question, and answer them in the right way.
• Is the contribution timely or only of historical interest? • Is the topic relevant to the venue’s typical readership? • What is missing? What would complete the presentation? Is any of the material  unnecessary? • How broad is the likely readership? • Can the paper be understood? Is it clearly written? Is the presentation at an adequate standard? • Does the content justify the length?
要注意文章中的的“explicit”和"implicit" hypothesis; and a proposal or innovation. 对于有些论文"no effort has been made to find relevant literature, or the proofs are only sketched, or it is clear that the paper has never been proofread, or in an extreme case, the paper does little more than outline the basic idea." ---- 直接划分到不值得通读的范畴。
And some more contents about Reviews.(Content of Reviews, Drafting a Review, Checking Your Review)