JohnWitman
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I'm in a graduate-level engineering course and the syllabus says we have to write "paper critiques" for every class meeting. I have no idea what that means.
I asked my professor and he said "analyze the paper, don't just summarize it." That's not helpful.
From what I can find online, a critique isn't just saying whether you liked the paper. It's analyzing the research itself — the problem, the methods, the conclusions. One source I found says to address questions like: What did I like? What did I dislike? What are future directions? What questions am I left with?
But this is for a computer science class. Does that change things? I'm so lost. Has anyone written critiques for engineering papers? What actually goes in them?
I asked my professor and he said "analyze the paper, don't just summarize it." That's not helpful.
From what I can find online, a critique isn't just saying whether you liked the paper. It's analyzing the research itself — the problem, the methods, the conclusions. One source I found says to address questions like: What did I like? What did I dislike? What are future directions? What questions am I left with?
But this is for a computer science class. Does that change things? I'm so lost. Has anyone written critiques for engineering papers? What actually goes in them?