Thread by @raulpacheco

THREAD. A live quick AIC content extraction of an article (tracking the time I have spent on it).

Every single person who reads my blog, every single one of my students, every attendee who participates in my workshops, all ask me "how long does it take you to read an article?"

I just downloaded and printed this article on qualitative social network analysis. It’s going to be useful to my FLACSO students. Reading and highlighting the abstract took me 1 minute and 15 seconds.

I have NOT scribbled anything nor have I created a CSED row entry (yet)

Because I like being systematic with my files and my reading process, I need to file this PDF within the right folder ("Social Network Analysis") and then upload it on to Mendeley and file it within the correct folder too ("SNA"). This should takes me a minute or two.

Lucky for me, Qualitative Research (the journal) has such good metadata that Mendeley imported it very cleanly and I did not need to "clean up" my reference fields.

If the PDF I uploaded doesn't yield the proper metadata, I need to use the "Lookup DOI" function. Or clean it.

Now, from Mendeley I can copy the formatted citation on to a clean Conceptual Synthesis Excel Dump (CSED) row.

So far, I have NOT transcribed any scribbles, but I've set up myself to do so. Back to reading, scribbling, highlighting.

raulpacheco.org/2016/06/synthe…

I’ve read the Introduction (3 minutes and 22 seconds). Again, we all have varying reading speeds and this is not a contest. I know I’m an extremely fast reader (thank you parents)

What I’m trying to explain is that a quick AIC read might not take more than 15 minutes.

As I go through the Conclusion I find ideas and insights that merit scribbles on the margins. Remember that I haven’t done those yet for the Intro and Abstract. Nevertheless, I find a lot of these ideas compelling enough to stop and start writing on margins (and index cards!)

Scribbling these notes on page 177 and highlighting and reading carefully pages 177 and 178 took me 7 minutes and 26 seconds.

If you read my notes to myself, you can potentially see that I believe this article is worth reading in full. I highlighted lots of relevant ideas.