Effective Strategies for Reading and Interpreting Academic Documents

✅ The outcome of this phase is to have reliable and updated sources for the research.

✅ When presenting a thesis, it is important to mention relevant authors and have their materials in the bibliography.

✅ Not including a globally recognized expert in the field can result in a deduction of points during the thesis presentation.

📚 Reading academic documents from original sources gives us confidence in working with up-to-date information.

🔍 Conduct a structured reading by selecting and reading the three most important and relevant documents on the topic from recognized authors.

⚠️ Reading scientific documents requires a different approach than reading literature and should not be treated the same way.

🔍 Scanning a document is a structured approach to quickly find specific information such as the document's title, author, bibliographic reference, keywords, and description of the contribution.

💡 The most important aspect of the document is the description of the author's research question, hypothesis, and results.

📚 Reading a document as a novel is not effective; it is intended to be scanned for extracting precise information.

📚 The strategy for reading academic documents is to start by reading the title and the abstract.

🔍 After reading the abstract, skip to the conclusions section to get an overview of the document.

📖 Once the conclusions have been read, selectively read other sections of interest, such as the methodology or results.

✅ It is important to read academic documents efficiently and selectively, focusing on relevant information.

📚 Always reference the source using APA format and utilize tools such as Mendeley to organize and extract relevant points.

🗂️ The final step is to create a documentary record for each important work considered.

The video discusses the process of creating document summaries for academic research.

Researchers are advised to create 3-5 document summaries as a repository of key authors and information.

These document summaries will be referenced in the final research paper's bibliography.

💡 The thesis includes a chapter called 'Marco Teórico' where the important authors and their studies are explained.

💡 The 'Marco Teórico' is a written development of the most important documents, explaining what each author said and their findings.

💡 Before writing the 'Marco Teórico', there are seven steps that need to be taken.