1. Summary: Give a brief summary of the work by your own word
• What is the research problem the paper attempts to address?
• What are the claimed contributions of the paper?
• How do the authors substantiate their claims?
• What are the conclusions?
2. Evaluating:
Evaluate the work by answering this question:
• Is the research problem significant?
• Are the contributions significant?
• Are the claims valid?
3. Synthesis: generate any interesting thought you have on the work by consulting the following question:
• What is the crux of the research problem?
• What are some alternative approaches to address the research problem?
• What is a better way to substantiate the claim of the authors?
• What is a good argument against the case made by the authors?
• How can the research results be improved?
• Can the research results be applied to another context?
• What are the open problems raised by this work?
• Bottom-line: Can we do better than the authors?