HTRAP

How to Read a Paper

This two-page paper has received wide readership and several translations. Here is the latest version.

Unfortunately, the links in the paper to further reading are out of date. Here is a list of links from 2022 (thanks to Jovana Knezevic)

[2] S. Peyton Jones, Research Skills

[3] T. Roscoe, Writing Reviews for Systems Conferences

[4] H. Schulzrinne, Writing Technical Articles

[5] G.M. Whitesides, [Whitesides’ Group: Writing a Paper

• The original (2007) version can be found here(https://intra.ece.ucr.edu/~rlake/Whitesides_writing_res_paper.pdf).

• Persian translation by Reza Gholizadeh Roshanagh.

• Korean translation by Woonghee Lee

• Chinese translation (on Zhihu) by [mailto:tarvos21@gmail.com Bingo Du]

• Portuguese translation by Jessica Reinheimer De Lima

• French translation by Maya Keshav

• Japanese translation by Yusuke Shinyama. Here is another Japanese translation by Shin Watanabe

• Greek translation by Christos Milarokostas

• Turkish translation by Ismail Ari

• Assamese translation by Priyankush Deka Here is a diagram by Anderson Araújo that illustrates the approach. ***

Iain McLean’s paper review matrix based on the three-pass approach.

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