"Theme" is the essence of a paper, and it is the eye. Through it, we can not only read the paper, but also spy on the author's inner thoughts. Here are some of my thoughts:

1, the title must be "new".

The so-called "new" is not for "new", but for "new". Create a fairy tale out of thin air to study, it's just a castle in the air, with no solid support at all. In my opinion, novelty means "from the side of the ridge, there are different heights", that is, the perspective is novel. Aside from other fields and majors for the time being, as far as ideological and political education is concerned, there are countless domestic research results. Looking around, it seems that there is no virgin land to develop. It is these smoke bombs that blind our eyes. Isn't the most innovative and unique thing in the world ourselves? Can someone copy us completely? No, so stand on your own side, think with your own personal experience, and don't try to dig holes from others to learn. Your own thoughts are always innovations that others can't copy. Today, several tutors have repeatedly mentioned that we are masters of education and have the opportunity to teach in the front line, which is a condition that academic graduate students do not have, so we should make full use of this advantage and find problems in our teaching practice. There are many problems in education in China, so it is meaningless to discuss them only at the theoretical level. The problems found in teaching are the ones that really need to be solved urgently. In addition, our major is to train middle school ideological and political education teachers, which is a limitation. If we focus on this subject, we should highlight the characteristics of the subject, and don't talk about the problems in all disciplines in general. Therefore, regarding the topic selection of my thesis, I think it will take a period of teaching practice to put forward more valuable and novel viewpoints.

2. The topic must be "precise".

The so-called "essence" is to narrow the scope of the theme to the essence and find a core point to discuss in depth, just like throwing a stone into the water. We should not only study how beautiful the ripples on the water surface are, but also focus on the situation of stones entering the water. As the saying goes, everything is not perfect. The same is true of the topic selection. As a graduate student, our ability is limited, and problems at the national and social levels are beyond our power. Too broad means "false, big and empty", so we just need to do our immediate work and study the problems in the subjects, grades and even classes we teach. The smaller the scope, the more innovative we are, the deeper we can dig, and the more we can touch on the essential issues. For example, there is a paper entitled "Research on Filial Piety of Contemporary Middle School Students". The tutors said that the topic is very good, and the issue of "filial piety" is a new topic, but the definition is too broad, which can be simplified as "the study of filial piety in ideological and political education courses in middle schools", thus improving the depth of the study. Another example is the article "Inquiry Teaching" in Tutor, which points out that not every class in cultural life needs inquiry teaching, but it is best to refine it into a specific class to learn. Of course, "essence" should also grasp a certain scale, and ensure that there is something to say and something to dig under the premise of accuracy.

3. The topic must be "accurate".

The so-called "accurate" means accurate definition.

General scientific research strives for accuracy, speaking with numbers, and there can be no errors. Although the humanities cannot be quantified, many concepts are similar. One more word and one less word will change the original intention. If the definition of the topic is incorrect, it is easy to go in the wrong direction in future research. For example, there is a paper entitled "Research on the Present Situation, Problems and Strategies of Students' Mental Health Education in Secondary Vocational Schools". The tutor suggested that "mental health education" here refers to "mental health education class" in a narrow sense or "mental health education" in a broad sense. There is a great difference between the two, and if it is not clearly defined, readers will misunderstand. Therefore, academic research should pay attention to the accuracy of language.

4. The topic must be "true".

The so-called "truth" is what really happens and really exists.

When choosing a topic, we often groan in pursuit of innovation, and trivial problems can be enlarged, just because no one has studied them. This is a vicious circle, and its disadvantage will be that academics are increasingly deviating from its effectiveness. As mentioned above, master of education must focus on practical research when writing papers, which is our characteristic and advantage. Therefore, to choose the real questions, only practice can produce true knowledge. A paper is a summary of teaching experience. The first-hand information you saw with your own eyes and heard with your own ears is definitely more valuable and convincing than what you saw in the book. Therefore, we should abandon the bad habit of turning a blind eye, bow our heads to practice, learn with action, and solve problems with sincerity.

5. Other questions about the topic selection.

In addition to the problems discussed in detail above, I think we should pay attention to several aspects: practicality, scientificity, feasibility and appropriateness. The tutor didn't focus on the explanation. I sorted out these points by consulting my class notes, and I think they are also worth learning.

Second, for the literature review

Literature review is a summary report of a lot of preparatory work in the early stage of writing. We should not only sort out the literature we have read, but also put forward our own opinions. Literature review reflects the breadth and depth of the author's reading, so we need to pay attention to several issues:

1, the literature should be as comprehensive as possible. We say that if a teacher wants to give a student a glass of water, he must have a bucket of water, and the same is true for writing a paper. Only by consulting a large number of relevant documents can we fully understand the development of the subject, including foreign and domestic, and it is difficult to write a well-founded paper without enough ink in our chest. This inspires me to read more books, read good books, make full use of library and network resources and broaden my knowledge.

2. Choose newer literature. Our topic selection should be innovative, references should keep pace with the times, keep up with the academic development trend, and screen out the latest literature, so as to better reflect the characteristics of the times and combine with reality more easily.

3. Select representative, scientific and reliable documents. As the old saying goes, you are in a hurry to see a doctor. We often go out when writing.

In this problem, all the documents related to the topic are read, so that the focus can't be found, and even the reliability of the documents is not considered. The result is "flowers are getting lost", and you can't tell which is good or bad. Therefore, when choosing files, you should go to the authoritative organization to search, pay attention to screening, and don't be credulous.

4. Be loyal to the referees. We often have the psychology that the selected materials are all for the paper, so when there is something inconsistent with the paper's point of view, we will selectively tamper with some materials to meet the paper. I've made such mistakes myself. In the future research, we should respect science, maintain a rigorous scientific research attitude and seek truth from facts.

Thirdly, it is the framework of the thesis.

Frame is the skeleton of the whole paper and the reflection of the author's thoughts. I think we should pay attention to several issues when writing the framework of the thesis:

1, think clearly. Including two aspects, one is the relevance of each title. In other words, the topic of the paper should be in a certain order, such as the common type of "purpose-significance-present situation-problem-strategy", and it should be logical and generally no problem. The second is the fit of the content under a certain heading. Our thesis will involve three-level titles or even four-level titles, and the more levels, the easier it is to be confused. The content that should belong to this title is written under other titles, and the overlap between content and title is not high, which seems to be suitable for this title and that title. Therefore, as mentioned above, the topic should be accurate, and then the ideas should be closely related to the theme, targeted and not easily confused.

2. prioritize. This still needs to be combined with the topic. A common problem in the opening report today is putting the cart before the horse. Everyone puts forward a question to study according to their own practice. When writing, they first introduce the relevant theoretical knowledge of this problem, such as purpose, significance, principle and so on. And then start to talk about practical significance. The idea is correct, but the length of the discussion theory is too long. These theories are summarized by predecessors and written in books. There is no need to take it out for a long time, so people can't see the new ideas, as if they are all piled up by opinions. The practical part should be the focus, but it is ignored. This phenomenon is very common when we do papers. When we collect a lot of relevant information, we hope to write it all in the paper to show how good we are, but it is not. This will make readers admire your reading and think that you have no self. Therefore, research should be down-to-earth, think more and create more.