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"How to give a good research talk" by
Simon L Peyton Jones, John Hughes, and John Launchbury

Giving a good talk, not only a research talk, is a difficult and challenging work. It consists of several aspects: technical, social and writing skills.

A good researcher is not always a good presenter. But everyone hopes to present his/her works well before your audience.

This paper gives us an useful and practical guide for presentation. It includes three parts ranging from the preparing of talk to the actual presentation skills.

"How to Read a Paper" by S.Keshav is a how-to article for academic beginner to learn the skills of reading academic papers.

It teaches a three-pass approach that can be used to efficiently read papers.

First pass: ignore main content in a paper. Just carefully read title, abstract, introduction, conclusion and reference. Don't miss the headings of sections and sub-sections. The reader should be able to answer some basic questions related to the paper at the end of this pass.