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Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, but I don't think your trick was missed at all? The second paragraph says: >I start by reading the abstract. Then, I
by ziddoap 3y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, but I don't think your trick was missed at all?
The second paragraph says:
>I start by reading the abstract. Then, I skim the introduction [...]
A few paragraphs down, another quote says:
>I always start with title and abstract. [...] I then read the introduction [...]
Another:
>I nearly always read the abstract first [...] I generally skim the introduction, reading its last paragraph
Is there something significantly different about what you are suggesting?
- AlotOfReading 3y agoWhat I'm saying is similar to the third quote, where you start after the abstract by reading the last 1-5 lines of the introduction. Only if you want to proceed further do you dedicate the time to read or skim the entire intro, which can span multiple pages. You save tens of seconds and a lot of thinking this way, plus it helps frame things by giving a concise statement you can reference as you ask "how does what I'm reading build towards the paper's goals?"