For both my theses I haven’t read a single paper back to back because most of the volume is a waste of space. Methodology, graphs, data, opinions, how can we improve further - sure. But a page of introduction to the background context? Why write it if myself I’m skipping it when reading papers of others? Summary of previous papers on the topic? Give me a list of what works the author is aware of and let’s get moving. Either I’m searching for something and I will go ahead and skim them, or I don’t care about author’s summary of other works. If there is some relevant data in other works, it will be cited when referenced
“Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?”
Exactly
For both my theses I haven’t read a single paper back to back because most of the volume is a waste of space. Methodology, graphs, data, opinions, how can we improve further - sure. But a page of introduction to the background context? Why write it if myself I’m skipping it when reading papers of others? Summary of previous papers on the topic? Give me a list of what works the author is aware of and let’s get moving. Either I’m searching for something and I will go ahead and skim them, or I don’t care about author’s summary of other works. If there is some relevant data in other works, it will be cited when referenced