In a blink of an eye, the full university life is coming to an end, and the final graduation thesis must be passed before graduation. Graduation thesis is a planned formal form to test the achievements of university learning. What formats should I pay attention to when writing my graduation thesis? The following are the main problems and solutions I have carefully written my graduation thesis, hoping to help everyone!
Graduation thesis writing is an extremely important comprehensive practical teaching link in the syllabus of English major in adult higher education. It is a landmark assignment for English majors to complete their undergraduate studies, a comprehensive summary and test of their academic achievements, and an important basis for students to obtain bachelor's degree qualifications. Therefore, the writing of graduation thesis is an independent and irreplaceable important teaching link, and its importance is self-evident. However, with the increase of enrollment ratio in adult colleges and universities, insufficient investment in education, low requirements for students' level and other factors, the writing level of graduation thesis of adult education students is worrying. How to improve the quality of graduation thesis writing for English majors in adult education institutions has become a top priority. In order to solve this problem, the author takes English majors in Adult Education College of Changzhou Institute of Technology as the research object, analyzes the common problems in graduation thesis, probes into the causes of these problems, and tries to put forward some countermeasures to improve the quality of thesis.
First, the main problems in the process of thesis writing
1. Students don't attach importance to graduation thesis.
Due to the on-the-job characteristics, students' attitude towards graduation thesis writing has been influenced to some extent. The author finds that students have insufficient understanding of undergraduate graduation thesis and their subjective attitude is not serious. In the process of thesis writing, the time invested is extremely limited, and the energy spent is even less. In the eyes of some students, the results of the thesis will not affect graduation, and under the control of this utilitarian heart, there will be a coping mentality; In addition, some students think that they are adults, and the instructors will not be too strict. The teacher will certainly let them pass, as long as they handle it properly, which will lead to negative emotions in their writing process and more problems in their graduation thesis.
2. Students blindly choose topics.
The topic selection lacks scientific and practical guiding significance. When choosing a topic, students often decide the topic according to their temporary interests. Moreover, when choosing a topic, they did not fully understand the topic and did not accumulate certain data. They only judge whether they are interested in the topic superficially. Therefore, they blindly choose the topic, which leads to the discovery that they can't write any more in the middle of the paper. They want to change the topic, or they can only write it down reluctantly. There are also some students who are particularly passive when choosing topics, have no topics of their own interest, hesitate when choosing topics, and finally even directly ask the instructor to give him a proposition.
3. Students lack the knowledge and ability to write papers.
Because many students know little about how to write graduation thesis, they usually don't pay attention to thinking and studying related professional topics until graduation. Not knowing the significance of graduation thesis writing, the process of graduation thesis writing, the basic format of graduation thesis, and even more not knowing how to search and use information, blindly choosing topics and determining topics will inevitably affect the quality of the thesis.
4. The writing format of students' papers is not standardized.
Students don't know enough about the writing process of the thesis, which leads to the nonstandard format of the thesis. Many students regard the case, abbreviation, italics, font, title, serial number, enumeration and record of the paper as trivial matters, which are irrelevant and completely ignore these requirements. Therefore, there are some problems, such as the title of the paper is vague, the will is unclear, and the outline, abstract and keywords to be written do not play their due roles. The listed references are not standardized, which makes the quality of students' graduation thesis difficult to meet the teaching requirements.
5. The students' basic language skills are poor.
The outstanding problem is the expression of words, which is mainly manifested in two aspects:
(1) Students lack certain theoretical literacy and critical thinking ability, do not logically analyze their arguments with the help of corresponding theoretical knowledge, and are not good at clarifying their views with clear thinking and rigorous discussion, which leads to unclear ideas and unclear argumentation level.
(2) English language ability is poor, and there are many mistakes in words and grammar. Some students cannot express themselves in English, so they have to use electronic tools. In this way, the content of machine translation can be imagined. It can be seen that basic language skills have become a very prominent problem that affects the quality of papers.
6. Poor cooperation with the tutor.
Most students don't know how to write their graduation thesis at all, and they are not clear about the difficulties they may encounter in the writing process, or even have no plan. Even in this case, few students can communicate with the instructor in time and ask the teacher for advice. A large part of the reason is that students think that graduation thesis is written casually, so they go their own way and make do with it. Therefore, instructors often complain that they can't get in touch with students, because students always use busy work as an excuse.
Second, the reasons for the low quality of students' graduation thesis
1, students' learning motivation
Many students said that they were studying to increase their employment weight. To put it bluntly, it is a "mixed diploma." Such impure enrollment motivation leads to insufficient learning motivation and lack of scientific research awareness. They can't study with peace of mind, and they can't study quietly. Their main attention is not on learning and scientific research, but on the results; The goal of its efforts is not how to complete the task, but the reward of completing the task. Studying for a diploma has become a true portrayal of some students. Therefore, in the process of thesis writing, such students will seek to complete their studies in the least time, get enough credits with the least effort, and complete the shoddy graduation thesis.
2, the school curriculum.
At present, there are some problems in the curriculum of adult education in our school, which restrict the development of students' learning ability to some extent. Mainly manifested in: relatively more specialized courses, less comprehensive practice courses; Curriculum setting is arbitrary, and the phenomenon of "setting courses for individuals" is common. As a result, students' basic theoretical knowledge is not generous enough, their understanding of basic concepts is very superficial, and they lack problem awareness in the process of writing papers, so they will not find problems. In addition, a lot of knowledge learned by students is more meaningful and valuable through practice, while more theoretical courses and less practical courses will affect students' scientific research and practical ability. The knowledge learned in the classroom only stays in textbooks, and cannot be transformed into their own knowledge through corresponding scientific research and practice, which hinders students from further carrying out innovative activities. At the same time, most adult education in China lacks thesis writing courses, so students rarely participate in scientific research and have no experience in writing scientific research papers. Entering the writing stage also begins with imitating paper writing. Due to the lack of writing methods and skills, it is inevitable that there will be such problems when writing papers.
Third, the solution
In order to strengthen the teaching management of graduation thesis writing for students of this major, improve the quality of graduation thesis and achieve the training goal, the author puts forward the following suggestions in view of the problems existing in the graduation thesis writing process of this major:
1. Strengthen students' understanding of the importance of thesis writing.
Schools and instructors should emphasize the importance of graduation thesis to students, require students to put graduation thesis writing in an important position, and realize that graduation thesis writing is an important step to complete undergraduate teaching content, a main means to comprehensively test students' comprehensive quality and practical ability, an important basis for students' graduation qualification certification, and strengthen students' internal demand for writing graduation thesis. Judging from the past experience and reality, even if graduates are not mainly engaged in research in the future, the strength of professional writing ability will affect their career choice and future career.
2. Improve the curriculum and reform the teaching methods.
It is suggested that the course content of scientific research methods should be appropriately added to the training plan of adult students to improve their comprehensive application of research methods. Set up some elective or compulsory courses for all-round thesis writing from topic selection to topic opening to writing, and from theoretical knowledge to writing. The contents of these courses should include the purpose, significance, characteristics, writing principles and methods of thesis writing, as well as various norms, standards and language habits that thesis writing needs to follow. It is emphasized that this course is an important part of the curriculum system of this major. Through the course of thesis writing, we can correct students' writing attitude, establish academic ethics, enable students to master writing norms, improve their writing ability, and finally cultivate their innovative ability. In addition, students should not only learn knowledge, but also stimulate learning motivation, exert their potential and creatively carry out scientific research. Therefore, the teaching methods of this major should be flexible and diverse. Teachers should infiltrate research consciousness in classroom teaching, take their own teaching as a model, and let students be inspired by teachers' perspectives and methods of analyzing problems, so as to cultivate students' initiative of independent learning and exploration and improve their ability of analyzing and solving problems.
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