1. 余英松 光電工程系 Office: Q203-2 (#3631) E-mail: ingsongyu@mail.stust.edu.tw 課程 : 應用科技英文 Topic : How to read a technical paper

2. Outline Technical paper reading Where to look Paper content How to read a paper : three-pass approach  Examples  Practice Reference

3. Technical paper reading A paper is a organized description of hypotheses, data and conclusions intended to induct the reader. Papers are the central part of research. Researchers must read papers for several reasons:  to review them for a conference or a class,  to keep current in their field, or  for a literature survey of a new field.

4. Where to look Journal Articles (Usually more mature works) Conference proceedings (Usually cutting edge works) Workshop papers (Less significant results) Technical reports (Usually not peer reviewed) Dissertations (Usually mature works) Others

5. Paper content Title Abstract Introduction Main body or experimental setup Result and discussion Conclusion and suggestion Acknowledgment Reference

6. How to read a paper Three-pass method

7. Reference 工程科技英文：實務與演練 / 白姝玉、董紫儀合著 http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data /07/paper-reading.pdf http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data /07/paper-reading.pdf Adv. Mater. 2004, 16, No. 15, pp1375-1377