Preface:

In general, many answers on Zhihu about how to read English literature are quite general. Many answers basically introduce how to search literature, how to judge whether a literature is worth reading, and what translation software to use.

In fact, these are basically useless good products for THE direction of CV, because the CV field is very hot now, there are a lot of summarizing papers, articles or blogs in all directions, you don’t need to find one by one. You don’t need a translation app. Think about how your boss or HR will feel about you if he or she learns that you need a translation app to read your paper.

So for beginners, why must we get rid of translation software? How do you get rid of translation software altogether? How to take notes in a paper? Why do you feel like you can’t remember anything after reading the paper? These will be covered in this article.

Why get rid of translation software

For beginners, there are a lot of professional terms do not know the problem.

What must be said here is: do not use translation software because you do not understand, do not use translation software! Don’t use translation apps! Don’t use translation apps!

There are four reasons:

1. It’s like a drug. Once you use it, you can’t get rid of it. For the novice, it is the time when there are no bad habits, so it is the time to form good habits. Some bad habits are difficult to change after they have been formed.

2. You can’t read efficiently. When you don’t have the ability to read the paper directly, there is a barrier between you and understanding the content of the paper. After all, reading a paper is not about finishing it, but about fully understanding it. When you read the energy on the selection of the translation software area, right, translation of this series of process, it is easy to see the paper behind forget the front, the whole read all forget, understanding ability comparable to Zhang Wuji learning taiji sword.

3. You can’t read at high speed. Most of the time papers do not need to read carefully, but because they do not have the ability to read directly, do not know what to read carefully, which is not important to see. At this time, we have to translate every paragraph.

4. Inability to understand effectively. This is because professional terms are difficult to translate accurately, a lot of content can be understood in English, but to translate it is very awkward. More often than not, a lot of terms just don’t translate.

How to get rid of translation software

Methods:

1. Print it out and read it. If you don’t know a word, go to Baidu or Google Translate and enter it manually. And then write it down in note-taking software, adverbs, adjectives, not just technical terms. Many times adverbs are indicative of degree and are also important for understanding the paper.

2. Take a look at your written words every day. Note: not the back, just take a few glances. That’s because you’ve seen it in your paper, you’ve got a specific semantic context, you’ve typed it in manually, you’ve looked at it a few times, you’ve basically memorized it.

3 hold on, do not miscut wood, this is a process of sharpening the knife, not for a long time, probably less than a month, the basic can do barrier-free reading papers. Although there will still be unknown words, but the basic few, almost not affect the reading.

Note: The purpose of printing down is to prevent myself from directly copying the whole sentence to translate because I do not know one or two words, which is to control my hands do not touch drugs.

After fully equipped with the ability to read, you can use THE WPS or tablet to read anytime and anywhere (in other classes). Printing down is not environmentally friendly, and the reading speed has been significantly improved at this time, and then printing will have a feeling that the printing speed can not keep up with the reading speed, which is a bit exaggerated.

Remember there was a question on Zhihu before, is it too much for the tutor to require reading three articles a week? For CV direction, three articles a week is a bit difficult before the accessibility of reading ability, but after this method to improve reading ability, seven or eight articles a week is not too difficult.

This is because the overall scheme of CV direction is the same mode: data enhancement method is used in the early stage, data preprocessing, feature extraction network is used in the middle, and post-processing is done later, so it is relatively easy to understand.

How to take notes in a paper

My personal habit is to use WPS without any document management software. The way of document classification is folder classification, and the way of taking notes is to directly put important contents in rectangular boxes.

Generally speaking, there are only a few things worth a frame of an essay:

  1. The shortcomings of other papers mentioned in the introduction are the starting point of this paper.

  2. The proposed structure or method, which is the innovation of this paper.

  3. Where a specific method or structure describes why it was designed or improved, this is the idea of improvement.

  4. Effect comparison.

Note: don’t usually go to details, I can look at is the purpose of the frame, so the details see or can have a look at, but not worth often watch later, only those classic papers need to pay attention to detail, identified as well as your own paper improvement direction, will need to read carefully and you are going to use the paper method details of related papers. The rest of the time it’s just a matter of getting an idea.

Reasons not to take notes by hand:

  1. There are too many papers and taking notes is a waste of time.

  2. Take notes to write their own content can have the paper’s original sentence summary get a bit?

  3. Many of the papers are an improvement on the content of the previous paper, and the relationship between them is too complex to be summed up properly.

  4. A direction of the paper reading down in fact, the mind is very clear, if a write instead of thinking disorderly.

  5. It’s so easy to get caught up in taking notes instead of thinking. It’s like going on a trip and taking pictures and forgetting to enjoy the journey.

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