You all know that reading scientific texts, be it introductory text books or scientific research articles, is a different experience than reading e.g. a novel or a magazine. It feels different and is usually more difficult. That often comes from the content, which in itself can be complicated and difficult to understand. It can also come from conventions in writing about research findings which sometimes make those publications boring and tedious to read. If you are new to the topic, reading a research article will make you feel lost because you don’t know the work and authors it references and you have difficulties to understand what it is good for in the first place. But there are ways to deal with it, but back to reading. We read scientific material for a particular purpose, usually not for recreation but for understanding something better, and for our education or job qualification. This kind of reading resembles work rather than leisure. So, this literature is written differently, and we read for different purposes than we read our usual stuff. But how is it written and how should we read it for not getting all stressed out about probably not getting important parts and doing bad in our studies?
How is scientific literature written and why should we bother?
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