The title of the thesis should be consistent with your knowledge structure, ability level and professional expertise, and the size should be moderate. Generally speaking, the topics of academic papers can be large or small. We should allow big topics, such as articles about the internal stage of feudal society in China and the peasant war, to belong to big topics; An article that studies an event, a war, the authenticity of historical materials, etc. It's all small topics. When writing an article, you can choose a small topic directly, or you can choose a small argument angle from a big topic, such as "On Peasant Wars in Feudal Society in China" (big) and "On Peasant Wars in the Late Qin Dynasty" (small). For college students who write academic papers for the first time, the topic of the paper should be small rather than big, and the topic is too big to grasp, so it is difficult to consider it in depth and detail, and it is easy to generalize. However, it is possible to write a high-quality paper with small topics, small scope, easy collection and demonstration, and easy operation.

2. The principle of old and new suitability

When you meet old and new topics, you should choose a new topic, because the new topic has not been explored before, and you can study it from a new angle, so as to express your new ideas, new ideas and new ideas, and it is easy to produce results.

Advocating new topics does not mean "following the fashion" and writing about issues that you don't understand or have no conditions to study. Moreover, we don't advocate rejecting all the old topics. The key is not to "stir up cold rice" when choosing an old topic, but to "create new works on the old topic, that is, although it is an old topic, the argument is new and forms a family statement". For example, many people have studied Cao Cao's evaluation and published many papers in the past. If you want to choose this topic, you must have something new. If your evaluation is novel and logical, your topic is valuable, otherwise you can only eat other people's chewed rice, which is worthless.

3. The principle of moderate difficulty

The so-called problem is that the understanding and research of a problem is beyond the scope of one's own commitment. For such a problem, once you start writing blindly, it is likely that the information collected is too little and not concentrated enough, or you don't have the knowledge structure and ability level to study this problem, so you can't improve it in a short time, which leads to a passive situation in the middle of writing, forcing yourself to change the topic and wasting time and energy, so you can't choose such a topic.

The so-called easy topic is a topic that is relatively easy to complete within your own ability and conditions, and does not need to spend too much time and energy. However, even if such a project is completed, it can't reflect its true level, can't achieve the purpose of exercising and improving itself by writing papers, and its academic value is not too high, so it is not suitable for choice. As far as the difficulty is concerned, the topic selection should be moderate in difficulty and depth, and it is possible to complete it through your own efforts.