How To Read a Paper by David R. Cheriton
http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/paper-reading.pdf

Researchers spend a great deal of time reading research papers. However, this skill is rarely taught, leading to much wasted effort. This article outlines a practical and efficient three-pass method for reading research papers. He also describe how to use this method to do a literature survey. This will be added to Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.