paper critique & summarization : How to read a paper

Title: How to Read a Paper
Author: S. Keshav
Published: ACM SIGCOMM 2007

summarization:

Three passes to read a paper:

First Pass: Scan the title, abstract, introduction, conclusion,
reference and the headings for each sections.
And find what type this paper is, what assumptions it has,
what contributions it claims.

Second Pass: Read the figures, diagrams, and illustrations carefully to get the key points.
Read the reference paper first if you need the background knowledge.

Third Pass: Virtually re-implement the paper.
Challenge every assumptions and consider how to solve the problem yourself.
Find the advantage and disadvantage of this paper.

For literature survay, the three passes mathod is also useful,
the first pass should be read the "recent" few papers about the field;
second pass is finding the good researcher in this area and knowing what he do the last years;
and final pass we could look around the websit of top conferences of this field to get more key papers.