Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Research papers!

Only thing I learn in my US life is how to find research papers and how to read them. It is really difficult to say how many papers I have read so far. Dr. Gruenwald has a style of reading papers. After reading a paper she expects you will be able to find the downfall of the strategy. Actually, not only Dr. Gruenwald, all the professors expect same way. Dr. Hougen is one step ahead of it. He expects you will be able to criticize the paper both positively and negatively. On an average, I read two papers per day. Then, I have to report Dr. Gruenwald about those papers. Guess! What worse thing could happen in life?

Actually, we didn’t read much research paper in our style of education in Bangladesh but they do here from the very beginning. So, we have to learn it when we get here. This is an important thing we should add in our academia. I think it is very important part of scientific study. If you can’t criticize other’s work you will not be able to produce your own. Reading a research paper is a good fun once you get on it. One of my tips for reading research paper is: forget about the authors when you are reading; even the giants write craps.

4 comments:

  1. ohhh!...research papers dint tell u it was my birthday!... :) nwys sir... tc.

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  2. Does it really necessary to get a greetings from everyone. I am sure you have got lot of new greetings this year and surely lose some old ones, that’s is life. Don’t expect everything altogether. Nothing comes unpaid. Nobody can hold everything altogether, that’s absurd, don’t try to do so. Does it really matter, either I remember your birthday or not? Don’t tell me craps because that not gonna work.

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  3. That was a nice tip, trying to find downfalls. But, in my case it seems, precise symbolism fades away the intuition behind an algorithm. You don't need to implement an algorithm to find out it's downfall, right? Then how do that? It'd be a good post if you could describe how do you decode a paper.

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