they read the introduction and so on and so forth working their way from the beginning to the end of the article don't do this this is not a good use of your time there's a better way to do things which is what I'm going to tell you about today let me jump in here at this point and tell you about a fairly simple algorithm if you will about how to get the most out of a paper with with the least effort and I think to do this you have to think of reading a paper as a two-phase process in the first phase you're surveying the paper the article