Ask the following questions while readings

What is the context of this work?
- What was the unmet need or opportunity? Does it make sense?
- What were existing approaches and why do they work or not work?
- What is the simplest example that highlights the problem that this approach works best for?
- Does the paper (and its contributions) matter?
- What are the actual hypotheses?
Approach
- How do they seek to validate their hypotheses? Do they make sense?
- Is the evaluation cursory or deep?
- Do you believe their results?
- Are the results presented well?

Papers on how to read papers

Some papers on reviewing papers

The Papers