Prologue: Many teachers feel that writing papers is a headache, just as it is difficult for students to write compositions. As soon as I reached the last minute to evaluate my professional title and outstanding performance, I remembered that there was still a theory of writing a paper, so I wrote an article pieced together. Of course, the quality is not guaranteed and the originality is quite doubtful. Some teachers complain that they deliberately toss front-line teachers when they have requirements for papers, and even regard writing papers as a personal "utilitarian" thing. No wonder teachers, our normal education seems to lack such a piece of content. Why do front-line teachers write papers? What is the connection between writing a paper and doing research? What are the methods, steps and norms of thesis writing? These basic questions are not clear to even some teachers who have been teaching for many years. Professor Sheng, tutor of master students majoring in curriculum and teaching theory and educational technology. He has accumulated many years of experience in instructing teachers to write papers and formed a systematic thinking. He is deeply disturbed by many shortcomings in teachers' papers and feels it necessary to clarify and sort out teachers' prejudices, misunderstandings and blind spots in paper writing. With the support of Professor Sheng, we set up this column. We sincerely hope that all teachers can base themselves on teaching practice, make good use of their own conditions and resources, and devote themselves to teaching research and thesis writing with confidence. Teachers in Shengqunli primary and secondary schools of Zhejiang University College of Education learn to do research and write papers, which is an important part of fulfilling their duties and completing their tasks. Some teachers don't understand. They think it is difficult enough to teach books and classes well. Why do they do research and write papers? This is the job of professional researchers. Does a clinician have to go to the laboratory to do experiments to diagnose and treat diseases? We believe that teachers, as a professional post, are getting more and more attention (even a little picky) because students, as complex life bodies, should be carefully cared for in their psychological and physiological characteristics, and there are many scientific principles worth exploring in various educational activities. The idea that teachers can be competent as long as they have professional knowledge of the subject is becoming more and more unworkable. Educational science and psychological science are very complicated knowledge, and there is no reason to despise them. Primary and secondary school teachers must always arm themselves with educational theories and master educational psychology, student psychology, class management art, teaching theory and design, family and community communication theory, etc. This is inseparable from learning from other people's research results and independently carrying out related research. When learning to do research and write papers, teachers should not only reflect their post performance, but also be motivated by internal motivation. Now many people are talking about "happiness index". If you only look at the completion of work tasks and get rewards or recognition from others, the happiness index of doing research and writing papers may still be low, and some people may even feel very painful. How can there be happiness? However, if doing research and writing papers is regarded as a part of life and an experience of personal growth and physical and mental pleasure, there will be long-term development potential. At present, many schools and teachers pay too much attention to utilitarian performance in the process of doing scientific research and writing papers. They can't wait for amazing changes in a year or two, and releasing a big satellite makes people sit up and take notice. In fact, we should understand that it is not difficult to do a good job in a subject and write a paper. The difficult thing is to constantly innovate and surpass yourself. Doing research and writing papers is a creative labor. Any act of opportunism, fame-seeking, or even violation of academic ethics may be profitable for a while, but it will never shape itself into everyone, and it is even more difficult to have the perseverance to persist. Why many excellent primary and secondary school teachers are willing to do research and write papers in loneliness, mainly for the pursuit of life and inner pleasure. Teachers in primary and secondary schools must proceed from reality and not aim too high. Don't blindly follow the trend; Don't lightly say what great mystery you have discovered or how many steps ahead of others. The complexity of educational phenomena and the concealment of educational laws determine that we have to make considerable efforts every small step forward, and we all need amazing perseverance and people who are good at hard work and always want to "create momentum" and "surpass", which basically belongs to the performance of "ignorance and fearlessness". What is the specific nature of primary and secondary school teachers doing research and writing papers, and how to locate them? We believe that there are different types of research work, such as basic theoretical research, applied theoretical research, development research and applied research, and the research of primary and secondary school teachers generally belongs to applied research. In other words, the purpose of research is mainly to improve work, improve oneself and enjoy oneself, regardless of how much new knowledge is developed. Whether it is basic theoretical research or applied research, they are just different in purpose and nature, and there is not necessarily a difference between high and low levels and fine and rough. Teachers have every reason to appreciate their own research experience, and others, including educational theorists and full-time educational researchers, should welcome teachers' research results with open arms. Doing research and writing papers are interrelated. The paper itself is the result of research work; Research needs to be expressed in the form of papers. Generally speaking, being able to do research work is the premise of writing a good paper. Without in-depth research, it is difficult to write high-quality papers. On the other hand, sometimes some research work has been carried out, but the quality of papers is not satisfactory, which is also a common phenomenon, especially for front-line teachers.