The 5 C's
At the end of the first pass you should be able to answer:
- Category: What is the type of paper? Literature? Prototype?
- Context: What other papers are related to this one? Can you connect it to something else?
- Correctness: This is a validity measurement. Are the assumptions valid? Answer based on your hunch.
- Contributions: Most papers have a contribution section at the beginning. Are these contributions meaningful? Are they useful? Which problems do they solve? Are these contributions novel?
- Clarity: do you think that the paper is well written? Did you spot any grammar mistakes? Any typos?
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