Why Read Research Papers?
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Reasons to read research papers
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- The primary reason academic papers are written is for the author(s)
to communicate their ideas, theories, and discoveries with others in
the Library and Information Science field, by:
- Reporting new results
- Relating the results to previous knowledge in the field
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- The reasons we read papers include:
- To understand the context of a specific research area
- To help formulate our own research problems
- To see good and bad writing as well as good and bad research
- To learn the techniques used in a particular research area
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- What should we focus on whrn we read a research paper?
- Identify the problem being addressed
- Identify the results of the research
- Identify the importance of the results
- Identify which parts of the paper are worth studying in detail
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last updated:
August 7, 2003
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Marti Lindsey mlindsey@u.arizona.edu |