[IdAgreeWithThat]

The person who needs instructions for reading a research paper probably ahouldn't even bother. I've seen way too many graduate (including doctoral) students need to be spoonfed how to do things. These people never turn into original thinkers who are capable of even slightly meaningful output (contributions to their field), in my experience.

[WWWWH]

I tend to disagree. Everyone has to do even the simplest of tasks for the first time and reinventing the wheel is often a waste of effort.

If you think that everyone just knows how to do this, take a close look at your last set of reviewer comments; were all of them pithy, accurate and demonstrating a close understanding of your work?

[dantheman]

That may be true for researchers, but there are a lot of implementors who take original research and try to apply it to problems.

[sitkack]

I hope you have never TAd a class.