How To Read A Paper Quickly & Effectively | Easy Research Reading Technique
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I want to start my research topic can you send me your email
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I thought l wasn't good enough. The articles were stressing me out, and l decided to go outside for fresh air, and an idea clicked that l should search for how to read articles . Indeed , you are life saviour. Thank you Doc
Glad to be of help to you :)
Glad to be of help to you :)
omg this was me today. I am not alone 😂This has really helped
Added timestamps + some revisions from @Akhila's comment:
1. Title - pull out your keywords (1:11)
2. Abstract - results + methods (1:33)
3. Intro - first and LAST paragraph of Intro (2:18)
4. Results - scroll through subsection headings of the Results (3:10)
5. Conclusion - quick summary of what this paper found (3:51)
--- At this point you don't need to do anything else UNLESS you want to go more in depth ---
6. Results - key results/figures (4:28)
7. Limitations (5:04)
8. References - pull out useful ones (5:16)
That's really useful, thank you
Thanks.
You're an angel for summarizing the video!
Wow; helpful thanks!
Thank you! I am done doing things the difficult way in my academic journey. Your content is appreciated.
Why did university not teach me this?? I always get so overwhelmed when starting to write a paper because of the amount of material I have to read. This will surely help me cut it down 😊
My dad taught me this actually when I was about 12. Isn’t it crazy that things that would make learning so much easier they don’t tell us.
@@KendallM0219 hello I want to know how to open the references in the online researches , for further reading
Agreed.
@@KendallM0219 This isn't an example of true learning, it's just a reading hack.
My university (or more accurately, a number of people in the chair groups I worked under for my theses) did touch upon this. Abstract first then intro, then results (and mainly figures, after all a picture says more than a thousand words, right?). But never in this detail. Only the 1rst & last paragraph of the intro and just the results subsection titles, conclusion and only after that actually deciding whether to continue reading cuts away so much reading time...
Thanks Dr Yonis, for sharing this approach of going through a pile of scientific papers in an efficient manner. 🙏☺️ I always waste way to much time with the details 😩 (stupid curiosity! 😐)
So I reckon this will come in useful for sure! 😁
This absolutely helped me feel so much less overwhelmed by my research papers. I always end up procrastinating on them JUST because reading empirical articles feels like SUCH A DAUNTING TASK. THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
Hey! Did u make any research paper in College life?
Same 😢 I feel better now
felt this
I’m glad I’m not the only one telling everyone not to read papers in full 🙊
Haha! It's a not-so-secret secret!
@@DrAminaYonis people are still very skeptical of it though!
Is anyone doing that anyway? 😅
Haha yes, makes a lot of sense
I been on that time. As someone who does meta-analysis, the key parts to focus on are methods, data and results... and appendices
I do this as a reviewer of over 40 articles, and counting. Many papers are quickly filtered for significance this way. I encourage people to get Mendeley (it’s free) to annotate the papers that they read. It is extremely useful to build content and references when writing your own paper.
thank you for the recommendation !!
Thanks 😊
Isn't mendeley for only science and not social science
Can you help me plz .. iam Arabic can't understand how ican use this program of references
@therealvitaminprotein I don't understand how Mendely works. I tried to upload my document so that it can be annotated, but it seems like it's impossible
I love that you went through an actual article as an example to show what you're talking about. I've heard so many similar tips from a hundred different sources in theory but I struggled with putting them into practice, and it's really helpful to see it applied to a real example. Thank you!
Thanks so much for this Amina! I used to think that I was cheating or being lazy by not reading the papers in full, but it really is about efficiency. There's no need to read all the specific details unless they're important to you and your goals. Your videos are always amazing and helpful so thank you very much.
Same
Thank you for this, as Dr Amina didn't mention that Notability is only available on the App store ie for Apple products only! I'm wondering though why my uni never mentioned Mendeley although it has an institutional subscription 🤔
Found this at the most perfect time! I was knee-deep in confusion about how to go about my literature review (and reading through papers are A LOT!). So grateful for this, your videos are what’s going to help me get through my final year! 😭❤️❤️
First Pass:
1. Title - key words
2. Abstract - results + methods
3. Intro - first and second paragraph
4. Results - headings
5. Conclusion
6. Results - key results/figures
7. Limitations
8. References - pull out useful ones
Thank you 🙏
Hi, sorry but as for the No 3 - i think it was mentioned as "last paragraph", not second paragraph. Hope would be useful. Thanks btw for the heads-up!
If in the paper didnt state “results” what other words can we search?is it findings or discussion?
thank you Akhila
@@puterinuraisyah4836 findings 😊
Dr Amina Yonis.
Thank you very much for your tips. I started recently my PhD and i got overwhelmed with the ammount of stuff i have to read. Sometimes when i try to read a paper, i get so lazy that i stop reading or i read without paying any attention to it. I got depressed and anxious because of that.
With your method i think i will make through.
I will take two days off and start over.
Thank you again!
hey .did it get better?
Do you know about expressive aphasia
You just saved my life with this. I am always overwhelmed with the enormity of journal articles we are asked to read.
This was a very helpful and relevant video. I am just starting my doctoral studies and have been researching how to read the articles effectively and efficiently. This is my 3rd video and it aligns largely with the others. There are a few slight differences in order, but I get it and think this will help me a lot. Thanks to those who did time stamps as well.
you just summarized in less than 10 minutes what I learned in a 5-week class. Thank you:)
What's interesting about this video is that not only does it tell you how to read through a paper, but also gives some background on how to write one. (Which I will surely use for my assignment that I'm procrastinating on, but I'm procrastinating "productively", or so I tell myself)
i'm over here reading the entire article in one hand, and a dictionary in the other to look up every single terminology lmao. This really Helped! thank you,
I usually use this technique and read everything IF the paper is no more than 20 pages. It actually always depends on how much details you need from the topic or theory you are trying to study.
اذا سمحت لي استفسار واتمني افادتي ،،، وجدت فقط 15 بحث عن نقطة بحثية ابحث عنها هل ممكن اعمل بها reveiw paper
Can’t thank you enough Amina. I’ve just started a Masters online and we’ve been asked to do this, but we were not given any help or support in how to read the articles. Thank you ❤
“Do you read word for word? Don’t do that” LOOOOL
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:15 *📃 Reading research papers doesn't require reading every detail from start to end.*
01:13 *📚 Start by examining the title and abstract to gauge the paper's topic and significance.*
02:23 *📑 Review the introduction's first and last paragraphs to understand the paper's background and aims.*
03:18 *📊 Focus on the subsection headings of the results section for key findings.*
03:58 *🧠 Jump to the conclusion for a brief summary of the paper's findings.*
05:08 *🛑 Pay attention to the limitations section to understand the study's flaws and challenges.*
05:22 *🔗 Explore referenced papers for further context and potential relevance to your study.*
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This was so so helpful thank you! I am a Lawyer who has just started a post-grad Masters in Psychology and Neuroscience and I have been flundring a little. I will be working through some of your other tutorials now!!
how to read research paper
1. Title
- pull out your keywords, topic, methods (1:11)
2. Abstract - i'm interested in or it is something that you're not interested in
-first paragraph: background +Why is the paper written, what is the gap in LR and gap in research that try to fill.
-methods
-results + discussion and conclusion(1:33)
3. Intro
- first and LAST paragraph of Intro (2:18) - bit of a background + what the hypothesis is and what the research aims are
4. Results -
scroll through subsection headings of the Results (3:10)
5. Conclusion
- quick summary of what this paper found (3:51)
- How their paper fits into the literature /how their paper fits into the research space
- their unique results and that's all you really need to know at this point
6. Results -
key results/figures (4:28)
7. Limitations (5:04)
what the flaws were or what some barriers and challenges were that were faced by that particular study
8. References
- pull out useful ones (5:16)
highlight a couple of other references that may be cited in this particular paper that i think are interesting and that could be useful for my own study
Thank you
Shout out to you Dr Amina, i literally come back to this video every couple of months when i need to remember how to restructure my reading. Whats more, i'm not even a science student but i have found this video to be the single most useful youtube video i've watched from my undergrad right into my post grad. Keep up with the amazing approach!
I am so glad I found your channel. As a very mature student I am so grateful for your tips. They are amazing and let me know I have been studying incorrectly but I have got it now. Again thank you.
We are told to read a lot of papers to learn to read paper...Thanku For you for making it easy for us.
this is how i have gone through 20+ readings to make my lit. review. checked the title, then, read the abstract first, saved them, then, went back to it the next day when i started with the actual writing process.
What I struggled is how to take notes from the article and how to integrate and organize those notes and then how to use those notes to write the essay. Can you make a video? Thank you so much
Thank you so much i thought i had to read 250 pages from my class in one night for an assignment on Research methods for my undergraduate
I just want to say that I started uni online and have a full time job as well. Uni started 2 weeks ago and I already have an assignment to submit by the end of the week. I honestly thought I would NOT be able to do it on time but this video SAVED ME!!!! SO thank you soooo much for this! Life saver
This came in the perfect time for me. 😭😭❤️❤️❤️
This is going to be helpful. I am starting my PhD in January and I have to force myself to read so many research papers that will touch basis with my thesis.
Im literally having a hard time with time and the amount of text I need to read. It’s literally impossible to read everything thoroughly when I have 5 other assignments to do. This helped a lot thank you.
Omg this is so helpful. Just started grad school for engineering and this is right on time. thank you so much
Thank you for this!❤
I just recalled one of my professors teaching us this during undergraduate studies!
I'm a new university student. And this helps me so much! Thank you Dr.
I'm going through all my articles first jotting down info from title and abstract I'll come back to the vid to continue next steps .. I like this!
Again, very helpful! I’ve been able to read through articles and feel overwhelmed by the amount of information that is provided. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much - am doing my literature search now for dissertation, perfect timing. I second the usefulness of Notability - the desktop app isn’t quite as nice as the ipad one, but it does update quickly between the two. Really helps having this structure for ‘just enough’ first pass reading.
I'm about to start a lit review and this has been so helpful because I have been dreading reading all the papers I've compiled! thank you thank you!!!
Im a high school student, got me hooked when you said you don’t have to read everything
i literally cannot live without your videos since i started my masters
Starting undergraduate research for linguistics and loved this!! Tysm
You have mentioned some good techniques to read research papers efficiently! We recommend most of our colleagues and peers to do the same! Good job
I'm literally having to write an essay based on 15 minimum peer reviewed articles😫I'm so glad I decided to search for help online!
I appreciate your technique for gathering information without reading the entire article!
Why I know this one after 1 years always read fulltext. 😭😭 Thanks .. you are so helpful. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for this video. I got too much stress and overwhelmed with the paper I have to read for my class and my thesis. You video help me a lot. I wish I know this technique since I started school 😅
This was greatly useful thank you so much - I generally read all the paper thinking that each bits is important and that makes me take a huge amount of time particularly when it is not my background. This video removed that burden off my head. Thanks!
Great, thanks for telling my students that methods don’t matter unless you’re replicating them.
Let's be honest, they don't matter, unless you need to look into the detail behind the experiments, at which point, you shouldn't be skim reading anyway :) hope that helps - please pass on my advice to your students.
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Thanks Amina, your video was worth watching. I now have some extra skills to be more efficient in reading. Keeping sharing the knowledge. Grateful to the sponsors for their support.
Alhamdulillah, thankyou so much Dr Amina. It helps me as a master student and this is more effective than my usual way.
Thank u so so much ma'am !!! I am an undergrad student who has just started working with a lab grp and i get assgned a tonne of readings to do (basically a literature survey) and I have made well, zero progress in the past 3 weeks and was feeling quite de motivated to even get started but i m so glad u have this resource here, idk why didn't i see this earlier !
This has helped tremendously! Wish I knew this on my undergrad degree 🤯
Thanks for making your videos. Your simple explanation works well for me and I find myself coming back to revisit your videos often. ❤
I have found until my current module I still didn’t realise to critique the article or study itself as well as the good/bad/so what factors.
Thank you so so much for this video. Oh this makes my life so much easier. I admire your dedication to academics. Ive noticed this was filmed on Christmas eve🍁🌲!! I hope you not a workaholic, but thank you once again for explaining this💞🙏
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This is my favourite channel. I especially like it when you explain everything so nicely. I wish you a lot of success with the channel and happy life. This is a great channel! I only caught sight of you folks in recent times, but it’s now among my favourite channels. Congratulations on such an amazing achievement, can't wait to see your channel grow even bigger.
Thank you so much! This really helps save a lot of time. I now incorporate this when reading journal articles for my course.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with PhDs research papers ✏️ , and I studied public administration and political science.
Thank you for this video dr. I have struggle in my masters how to do my research paper. This is a big help.
Very helpful and very clear -straight to the point with no nonsense!
Today I will read my first Research Paper. I am so glad that I found your video! Can you please make another video about how to review a Research paper? I subscribed!! Thank youuu!!!
I will try!
Thank you for your advices, I will use them to write my thesis on Chinese characters teaching! I always spend a lot of time reading all the papers and other researches, but there's no need to do it, so I want to thank you!
Thanks Dr Amina, I am planning to read a lot of distributed computing papers using the technique above and check on the results.
very very useful!! thank you so much. I feel so much more confident doing my assingnments after whatching your videos.
A strategic way of looking at 'WORDS'! =) Love it ! Thank You Dr Amina Yonis!
This is going to save my life when I do my disso, one of the main reasons I lack additional sources is because it takes so LONG to read them so I just end up not bothering with some altogether. This makes so much sense and now that I've learnt of it I can see how it will definitely improve my academic reading. Another reason I end up skipping texts altogether is because they're written so complex it makes me question if I even know how to read anymore. Other than searching the complex words up, do you have any tips on this?
Reading this comment is like I wrote it for myself. I read articles and think I dont even believe I am able to critique because I dont understand the technical jargon that comes along with it. So thank you for writing a comment down, its made me feel less silly. Im currently working on my disso now and have no idea what i am doing lol
This was more than helpful I am grateful for your assisance. May God protect and bless you Dr. Thank you so much
1. Title: pull out keyword
2. Abstract: Result, method, short conclusion
2.5: First and Last para of introduction
3. Result:
4. Conclusion
5. More on result
6. Limitation
7. Reference useful, graphs,...
Thank you for the guidelines! My lecturer even just said only read from Abstract and didn't show how to properly read.
Thank you. Very educative
I'm studying my masters in Psych and this was super useful!! Thank you
Thank you so much Dr! I've seen all the videos out there and yours is by far the most complete and well explained!
I’m just looking for numerous reiterations of how to read papers coz I get into one and just forget about it because of the jargons and complicated writing styles on the papers 😂 - I hope I get into my thesis and at least write in a way that I’d want to read it if I was to mandated to or am searching for references LOL. Thank you so much for this!
Thank you for showing direction. It helps me save time.
If you want to draw a straight line in notability, just draw the line and at the end of the line keep pressing the pin for 2 or 3 seconds and it will straighten!
The same concept applies to drawing a box, a circle, a triangle, and many others.
Thank you so much!!
Thank you for your nice talk but saying that looking at the methodology section is not important is not necessarily true.
Choosing the proper study design that can answer a specific clinical question is extremely important. In addition, from methodology, you can tell if there was any kind of bias.
Love this video! You hit the nail right on the head getting right down to the explanation of the process and then gave the Skill Share bonus as well.
Definitely subscribed to your TH-cam channel AND I will check out Skill Share as well. Gratzi. 🙏
thank you so much for this video, super helpful!! currently working working on my final paper fro medical school, all this is gonna come in handy in the future. Best wishes!
For the second time im watching this hope it become applicable this time:)
Thank you Dr Amina.Your videos are always educative and straight.Keep up the good work.
How to read research papers quickly:
1. Look at the title & pick some key words
2. Read the Abstract
3. Consider the Introduction
The first paragraph of intro gives you the general background &
last paragraph of the introduction talks about the intention, why the papaer is being writen, what the research aims are, hypothesis, research aims, summary of methods. It basically tells you what is yet to come in the paper.
4. Literature review
5. Limitations
6. Key results
7. Conclusion for the findings
8. Finally look out for key references.
Thank you very much for this quick and brief video Dr. Amina Yonis. May Allah bless you!
Thank you very much. This is a valuable VDO.
Informer, I take too much time to read the whole details in the literature, haha.
This VDO helps me to save a lot of time.
I was doing this kind of but for some reason I was skipping the abstract. That is for the great tip. I have been drowning in my reading. This helps.
The abstract is the best bit!
Tthis was so helpful!! I was so stressed about my literature review.......this and all your previous videos were super helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
Hey! Did u make any research paper in College life?
Start by looking at the paper's title to identify keywords.
Examine the abstract for background, methods, results, and conclusion.
Read the first and last paragraphs of the introduction to understand the paper's context and hypothesis.
Review subsection headings in the results section for key findings.
Check the conclusion for a summary of the paper's main points.
Optionally, explore the results in more depth, focusing on significant data.
Investigate the limitations section to understand the study's challenges.
Identify and note interesting references cited in the paper.
Thank You so much may God bless you with more new things so you can help people. So glad I found your video and it answered so many questions that even my University couldn't answer. Thank You again!!!!
This is so helpful. Thank you Dr. Yonis. I am also overjoyed to find so many poc in the comments
An essential skill for any grad student in the sciences!
The best and concise way! Thank you 👍🏻👍🏻
Can you do a video on setting deadlines with online learning and just online learning and how to be effective at it?
I appreciate your efforts in preparing this video, Dr. Amira!
Hello,
This advice is great.
Now I can go try to find research study papers to read.
Very nice and clear explanation
Thanks Amina
This was really helpful
Thanks