Selecting a Topic
Go to www.scholar.google.com and search for a topic and sort the pages by years to find the most recent article on the topic selected
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How to read a research paper:
There are many ways to approach this. However, over the years I have found the following two a very good starting point for anyone new to research:
Doing Literature Review
Find a **reasonable number of related papers (20-25 at least) and write 12-15 lines per paper.
Reasonable means that they must be related to your topic and not just random/generic papers.
You can write to answer the following in the text:
What this paper is about?
What problem have been addressed?
What is the approach?
Strengths/Weaknesses,
How have they implemented the paper?
How have they evaluated their work?
Also make a table for the papers selected. The table should have the following columns*:
Technique used ---Problem addressed--Strength--Weaknesses--Implementation & Evaluation
Reaching a problem statement (identifying research questions for your research):
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Writing Abstract
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Writing Introduction
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