Besides the S. Keshav's paper on how to read papers "How to Read a Paper", take a look at the section "Reading Research Papers" by Margo Seltzer in "CS261: Grad

Besides the S. Keshav's paper on how to read papers "How to Read a Paper", take a look at the section "Reading Research Papers" by Margo Seltzer in "CS261: Graduate Operating Systems (2014)" http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs261/notes/intro.html http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs261/notes/intro.html