When choosing a thesis topic, graduate students must write what they have accumulated in their study, and cannot write a propositional composition. As a tutor, don't force graduate students to write about a certain aspect or a certain person.
The second point: the topic size of the paper should be appropriate.
Not too big. For example, it is too big for graduate students to write "On the Imperial Examination System in Song Dynasty"; It can't be too small. On the Seal System of Song Dynasty is too small, so the topic must be appropriate.
The third point: find enough historical materials.
Writing an article is the same as cooking. How to do it without food?
Fourth, we should refer to other people's works with similar or identical contents.
What do you think of this issue, which can be used for reference, which can be supplemented and which should be criticized? What historical materials, in which books and in what way they cited when studying this issue are equivalent to telling you a gateway from which you can find the historical materials you need. It doesn't mean that they have used up all the historical materials of this book, nor does it mean that all the historical materials are quoted properly.
Fifth point: when writing a paper, you should discuss it while describing it.
When writing a graduation thesis, you should talk and discuss, not only with historical materials, but also with your own views and opinions.
The sixth point: the written paper should be revised repeatedly, that is, polished repeatedly.
Don't write an article and never read it again. Read it again and again, revise it again and again, and you will get something if you read it once, and you will get something if you read it twice. I slept and woke up the next day to see it. We found that some loopholes need to be supplemented, some arguments can be revised more accurately, and some problems have not been explained clearly, so we have to change them again. In short, we should take pains to modify our own things, that is, "grinding", so as to produce fine products. As the saying goes, "slow work makes fine work", which is the truth.
Seventh, we should make textual research on the cited materials.
There are three standards for undergraduate thesis, master thesis and doctoral thesis. For undergraduate thesis, you only need to find basic historical materials; For master's thesis, you should not only find enough historical materials, but also make a little identification; For doctoral thesis, not only sufficient historical materials are needed, but also textual research and appraisal are needed. Study historical materials, don't just use historical materials.
Eighth: try to produce as many by-products as possible.
Including two aspects: first, write some small papers appropriately and try to publish them in some core journals. You write a short paper first, which may be a doctoral thesis. The second is to accumulate historical materials as much as possible. Some historical materials may not be used in your paper, but they will be useful for your further research and writing other papers in the future.
Related precautions
Some students may be inexperienced and naive, copy or borrow a paper, and then they will not include this reference in the reference. They even think that this duplicate checking tool will not be detected, and the repetition rate of their papers will not be high.
I have to say that this idea is wrong, which not only underestimates the current duplicate checking tools, but also completely blurs the concept and significance of citation. In fact, part of the function of reference is citation, and the part marked with reference is to help you reduce the repeated use of duplicate checking tools.
Remember that references must indicate which author is quoted and which page of the article, respect the work and be rigorous, which is also convenient for readers (tutors) to provide verification basis. By the way, many tutors will know which one to quote after reading your paper. If they see that your quotation is unmarked or marked inaccurately, it's a matter of deducting impression points.
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