No, the number of words in a paper refers to the text, excluding cover, table of contents, abstract, keywords, thanks, references and appendices. Because of the table of contents, abstracts, etc. It is a supplementary explanation and summary of the main body of the paper, and the word count requirement is to ensure that the argument is sufficient and the content is complete, and only the main body can be included in the required word count range.

Graduation thesis for English majors must be written in English, with no less than 5000 words (including conclusions, references and appendix titles). The text should be about 4000 words. According to the requirements of this specification, use white A4 printing paper to print paper on one side. All left binding.

The writing format of English papers

1, subject

That is, the title, its main function is to summarize the central content of the whole paper. The topic should be accurate, appropriate, vivid, short and concise.

2. Summary

It is a high summary of the paper and an indispensable part of the long paper. It is required to write in Chinese and English respectively, and an abstract should be no less than 200 words. 3-5 keywords should be indicated.

3. Keywords

It is to mark the key theme content of the literature, but try to use less irregular subject words or new words. Keywords are words or terms selected from papers for document indexing to express the main contents and information items of the full text.

4. Text

The text of the thesis is the main and core part of the graduation project (thesis), and it is the author's detailed statement of his research work.

5. Conclusion

The conclusion includes the summary and comprehensive conclusion of the whole research work. The conclusion reflects the author's research results and expresses the author's views and opinions on the research topic, which is the ideological essence of the full text. Generally speaking, the length is short.