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?