This is why you look at the related works section first. If you don't know any of them, go find those articles and do your favorite recursive look up of those a

This is why you look at the related works section first. If you don't know any of them, go find those articles and do your favorite recursive look up of those articles until you find documents that you can grok. At that point you work forward, annotating, high lighting, and answering a few questions like: * What is the take away message? * What is the people problem? * What questions does this leave you with? * What previous questions were answered?