Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 21:59:03 UTC No. 16366632

Yeah it's just an IQ thing. Some just brainmog. There's no secret. You just have to get used to revising and close reading.

Anonymous at Sun, 8 Sep 2024 01:23:20 UTC No. 16367160

>>16366627
just use AI

Anonymous at Sun, 8 Sep 2024 01:30:42 UTC No. 16367187

>>16366627
There's two kinds of authors of research papers:
1. People who put little to no useful information in captions and expect you to read every fucking sentence of the paper to figure out what's going on.
2. People who bullet point all the important details in the captions so that people can get the gist quickly, and then dig into the details if they're interested.

Pray that you're in a field where most of the researchers are the latter.

Anonymous at Mon, 9 Sep 2024 12:05:54 UTC No. 16369575

>>16366632
yeah

Anonymous at Mon, 9 Sep 2024 19:54:17 UTC No. 16370288

>>16366627
My advice is to find any research project you can and pump out the paper as fast as you can. That's probably fine. If you have extra time, write up another paper that either expands on your previous results or even better is tangentially related to your undergrad work and produce an inch or two of novelty on that. You can repeat this process for as much time as you have until graduate apps.

Anonymous at Mon, 9 Sep 2024 20:12:35 UTC No. 16370314

>>16366627
eventually you realize that the amount of information you need to take out of a paper is usually very small. there is almost never a reason to read a paper linearly unless it's like 4 pages
read the abstract, flip directly to what you need to know and ignore the rest

Anonymous at Mon, 9 Sep 2024 20:49:34 UTC No. 16370402

>>16366627
Learn to speak the language of your field. You do this by reading the research papers whenever you can. Have some with you all the time so you can start reading anytime you have 10 minutes to kill.
You learn to write by doing problem sets, lots of problem sets, then start filling in the blanks in the papers you are reading. You need to discover all those things your instructors and the writers already know.
Your advisor already speaks this language, so he can glance at an abstract and know if he just needs the results or if the details of the procedure are important too.

Anonymous at Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:56:07 UTC No. 16374237

>>16366627
Read it you low IQ imbecile

Anonymous at Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:08:00 UTC No. 16375650

>>16366627
christ how many 'how do i study better' threads are there? just read the papers man