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OK, so after you got a research paper next you need to scan it and decide whether you want to use it

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in your research or not.

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So let me show you how I scan research papers to avoid that our waste too much time on every single

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research paper.

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So I start simply and obviously with the title and if the title is interesting enough I read the abstract.

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And if I get the impression from the abstract that this research is relevant to my own research then

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I read the introduction and then after the introduction I either read the whole paper if I am sure that

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this paper is relevant or if I'm not sure then I just jump right away to the summary and conclusions

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section at the end of the paper.

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And if it doesn't have a summary and conclusions section I would go to the beginning of the discussion

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section and just read the first few paragraphs and then based on that I usually make a final decision

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to either read the whole paper or decide that the paper is just not relevant for my research.

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So I don't read every paper that could be interesting because very often you can already exclude papers

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based on the abstract or the introduction.

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Okay so that's how you quickly scan research papers and in the next lecture I will show you some free

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software that will make it a lot easier to organize your research library and later create citations

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in your research paper.