Reading Strategies Reading improves manuscript writing

Read often!

Learn how native English speakers write

Learn proper argument structure

Learn manuscript structure and style

Get new ideas, identify knowledge gaps

Article and journal quality

Discuss with colleagues

Reading StrategiesMake time to read

Most researchers read 60–90 min per day

Spend 20–30 min every day reading abstracts

Spend 60 min 2 or 3 days a week reading papers

Join a journal club

Reading Strategies How to read an article

From start to finish?

Section by section?

Not efficient!

What do you want to know?

Where can you find it?

Reading Strategies

Self-assess knowledge of topic

Read Title and Abstract first

Strategies for reading

Have you read similar papers?

Familiar with the terminology?

Do you understand the relevance of the hypothesis

Reading Strategies

Read Figures and then Results

Read Discussion for interpretation

Self-assess knowledge of topic

Read Title and Abstract first

Refer to Introduction and Methods if necessary

Strategies for reading

Read last paragraph of introductionfor hypothesis/objectives