課程 : 應用科技英文
Topic : How to read a technical paper
余英松
光電工程系
Office: Q203-2 (#3631)
E-mail: ingsongyu@mail.stust.edu.tw
Outline
 Technical paper reading
 Where to look
 Paper content
 How to read a paper : three-pass approach
 Examples
 Practice
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Reference
Technical paper reading
 A paper is a organized description of hypotheses, data and
conclusions intended to induct the reader.
 Papers are the central part of research.
 Researchers must read papers for several reasons:
 to review them for a conference or a class,
 to keep current in their field, or
 for a literature survey of a new field.
Where to look
 Journal Articles (Usually more mature works)
 Conference proceedings (Usually cutting edge works)
 Workshop papers (Less significant results)
 Technical reports (Usually not peer reviewed)
 Dissertations (Usually mature works)
 Others
Paper content
 Title
 Abstract
 Introduction
 Main body or experimental setup
 Result and discussion
 Conclusion and suggestion
 Acknowledgment
 Reference
How to read a paper
 Three-pass method
Reference
 工程科技英文：實務與演練 / 白姝玉、董紫儀合著
 http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data
/07/paper-reading.pdf
 Adv. Mater. 2004, 16, No. 15, pp1375-1377