1, different definitions
An academic paper refers to a scientific record of new scientific research achievements or innovative ideas and knowledge of an academic topic in an experimental, theoretical or foreseeable way, or a scientific summary of new progress actually made by applying known principles, a written document provided for reading, communication, discussion or publication in academic journals, or for other purposes.
Academic papers are what we usually call "small papers", and published periodical papers are also academic papers. Dissertation refers to the research report or scientific paper written by the author to obtain a certain degree. It is generally divided into three levels: bachelor's thesis, master's thesis and doctoral thesis. Dissertation is what we usually call "big thesis", which is our graduation thesis.
2. Different topics are selected from different angles.
Academic papers are mainly used for academic exchanges, so the topic selection of academic papers needs to meet the requirements of periodical acceptance, because publication needs to be reviewed by periodical editors, so when you want to publish an intentional periodical, you need to know the acceptance scope and topic selection of the periodical first, and then prescribe the right medicine.
Dissertation is an important basis to measure whether postgraduate training meets the requirements, and to some extent, it determines whether graduate students can graduate smoothly. Therefore, the topic selection of the dissertation not only needs to combine one's own interests and the opinions of the tutor, but also needs to meet the requirements of value, novelty and feasibility.
3. Different lengths
Academic papers have requirements on the length of articles. Because there is a page limit in each issue of a periodical, there is also a requirement for the number of words in the article. Published "small papers" generally require 6000-8000 words.
The length of dissertations is long, and different schools have different requirements. Generally speaking, a bachelor's degree thesis requires about 1 0,000 words, a master's degree thesis requires about 30,000-40,000 words, and a doctoral degree thesis requires about 654,380+0,000 words.