I. Introduction
Innovation is the greatest practical activity of mankind and a powerful driving force to promote social progress and economic development. With the rapid development of science and technology, innovation has become the most important standard to measure all our work. Academic research is no exception. As an important part of the humanities research army, liberal arts graduate students must innovate on the basis of previous research when writing their papers. But nowadays, liberal arts graduate students are generally novices in scientific research. In the process of writing their papers, they often lack originality, which leads to things moving around, low-level repetition and nothing new in the papers. Based on this reality, this paper discusses the importance of innovation in academic paper writing from the most basic concept, characteristics and essence of innovation, and on this basis, focuses on the conditions that academic innovation should have and the innovative ways of paper writing, aiming at deepening the understanding and understanding of innovative ideas for liberal arts graduates, and applying them more to the process of paper writing to improve the level of paper writing.
Second, innovation and academic paper writing
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There are different opinions about the origin of the word innovation, but it is generally believed that it comes from the Austrian economist Joseph? Schumpeter. He put forward and expounded this concept from the perspective of economics for the first time in 19 12. He pointed out that innovation is to establish a new production function, which is a new combination of factors of production by entrepreneurs. The change of any factor will lead to the change of production function, thus promoting economic development. Schumpeter's innovation belongs to the category of pure economics. With the rapid development of science and technology, the development of social economy, the enhancement of people's innovation consciousness and the improvement of innovation level, people's understanding of innovation has also been greatly expanded and deepened. Innovation no longer only refers to economic phenomena, but extends to all aspects of science and technology, politics, culture, military and social life, and many new innovative concepts have emerged, such as scientific and technological innovation, industrial innovation, educational innovation, management innovation, academic innovation and so on. Obviously, innovation is a common phenomenon in human society.
But what is the meaning of innovation? The concept of innovation is being discussed in theoretical and academic circles, and there is no accepted definition at present. Modern Chinese Dictionary (Supplementary Edition) compiled by the Dictionary Editorial Office of Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2002 gives a semantic explanation of innovation: although there is nothing wrong with eliminating the old and creating the new, it is too general to summarize the rich and profound connotation of innovation. Although there is no recognized definition of innovation, it has its recognized characteristics: 1) the subjectivity of innovation: innovation is a conscious and conscious activity process. 2) Novelty of innovation: innovation must be able to produce unprecedented new achievements. 3) The value of innovation: innovation must be able to meet people's needs. Academic circles believe that innovation needs a process, which includes the following stages. 1) preparation stage: the task of this stage is to manually memorize data and related information to prepare for innovation activities in advance. 2) Brewing stage: This is the operation stage of innovation activities. After long-term systematic preparation, knowledge and experience in a certain field have accumulated considerably, and entered the stage of careful consideration and exploration and experiment. 3) Comprehension stage: This is the harvest stage of the innovation process. After a long period of brewing, with the in-depth development of innovation activities, repeated exploration and approximation, the innovation process finally approaches the door to success. 4) Evaluation feedback: This is the last step of innovation activities. After obtaining the results, we should criticize the results from an objective standpoint and from the perspective of others, and seriously judge their functional realization, novelty and practical value.
(B) Academic innovation and academic paper writing
Academic innovation belongs to theoretical innovation. We must talk about theoretical innovation before academic innovation.
Theoretical innovation means that people endow theory with new forms or new connotations through creative activities. Theoretical innovation is the basic form of theoretical development and the fundamental way to maintain the vigorous vitality of theory. Theoretical innovation is the forerunner of all other innovations. Theoretical innovation is the forerunner of social change and a powerful driving force to promote social progress. There are also many different understandings about academic innovation. Yang Zijian of China Ocean University once explained the source. The original academic meaning of his Chinese is learning and Taoism, and later it refers to systematic and specialized learning. Learned is often used to express academic meaning in English, and sometimes it is also used for science and scholarship. Judging from the meaning of Chinese and English scholarship, it mainly refers to systematic and specialized theoretical knowledge, and generally does not include technical and application issues. In his view, academic innovation mainly refers to overthrowing, reforming, correcting old or creating new theoretical concepts and research methods in various academic fields.
Academic papers are theoretical articles that study the scientific laws of a phenomenon in the fields of philosophy, social science and natural science. It embodies its existence value with its scientific, theoretical and original characteristics. In fact, it is an article that expresses scientific research results and expounds academic views, and it is to record your own research results. Moreover, such research must be scientific, theoretical and original. The main scientific research activity of liberal arts graduate students is academic thesis writing, so for liberal arts graduate students, academic thesis is an article that records academic innovation activities. The essence of academic paper writing is academic innovation, which is an academic innovation process consisting of preparation stage, brewing stage, comprehension stage and evaluation feedback. In the next part, this paper will introduce in detail the problems that should be paid attention to in each stage of academic paper writing.
Third, the conditions and requirements of each stage of thesis writing.
(1) Preparatory stage
The task of the thesis writing preparation stage is to collect data and related information to prepare for the thesis writing. Although it is only a preparatory stage, it is a crucial basic stage. Before engaging in innovative activities, a person needs to know something about the knowledge and experience of similar problems accumulated by predecessors, and then he can find new problems from existing problems, new relationships from old ones, get inspiration from past experiences, choose innovative topics and determine the direction and goal of innovation in the process of accumulation. In order to make the written paper innovative academically, the following conditions need to be met: 1) enrich the systematic knowledge. 2) Grasp the required information in detail. The so-called richness and system of knowledge requires breadth and profundity of knowledge and a system. As a liberal arts graduate student, he has both systematic knowledge in the fields of humanities and social sciences and knowledge of natural sciences. We should not only understand the relationship between the knowledge of this subject, but also understand their history. In short, we should combine arts and sciences, and learn from the past to serve the present. The so-called detailed possession of the required information means a detailed understanding of all kinds of theories, viewpoints and opinions of your research topic, and at the same time, you should have sufficient evidence to prove your own views. For example, to make a comparative study of fire metaphors in Chinese and English, we should not only have books and papers on the comparative study of fire metaphors at home and abroad, but also have materials on fire metaphors in Chinese and English vocabulary and various theoretical sources.
However, to meet these two conditions, liberal arts graduate students are required to make strict reading plans, read widely and lay a solid academic foundation; Read the latest works and papers in the subject field in time and keep up with the academic trend. Only in this way can we get inspiration from previous studies and write innovative papers.
Many scholars have given good advice on the reading of liberal arts graduate students. This paper summarizes their views. This paper holds that once there is a study plan, graduate students can no longer study only by their own interests as in undergraduate period, but should make a detailed study plan from the perspective of preparing for scientific research. This plan should include basic knowledge reading plan, research direction reading plan and professional reading plan. Second, we should widely read basic theoretical works and cultivate profound theoretical and logical cultivation. No matter which discipline or direction you study, you should read through the history of philosophy, history and logic at home and abroad. Third, the combination of history and theory. The so-called history, not only refers to the theoretical history of each major, research direction and even topic selection. The so-called works refer to the classic works and documents about this major, this research direction and this topic at all times and all over the world. The so-called theory is an academic paper. Reading and studying in the way of combining history, literature and theory can lay a solid academic foundation and master academic trends. In addition, reading should combine browsing, extensive reading and intensive reading; Combine notes; It should be combined with social practice. In a word, reading is the foundation of academic innovation for liberal arts graduate students. Wang Yin, a professor at Sichuan University, said in many lectures: Learning is enrichment. Only by enriching first can an article be supported. By full, he means reading enough books.
(2) the brewing stage and the comprehension stage
The gestation stage and understanding stage of thesis writing are the operation stages of innovation activities. That is, the stage of our paper from rough conception to first draft. At this stage, we are often highly excited and uncertain. Because this stage is the key stage of our innovation. Sometimes I feel that my ideas are novel and unique and have research value, and sometimes I fall into self-doubt, think that research is meaningless or too difficult to study, and want to give up. At this time, how to calm down, analyze the problems we encounter objectively, rationally and scientifically, overcome the difficulties and carry on the research activities is the key problem we have to solve. But to solve this problem, we need to meet the following conditions: 1) innovative thinking. 2) Scientific spirit. The so-called innovative thinking is thinking with innovative character. In this thinking process, people often break the traditional thinking mode, give full play to their imagination and association, put forward new ideas, summarize new theories and get scientific research results. Innovative thinking is the basic condition of academic innovation. Scientific spirit is the spirit of doubt, truth-seeking, dedication, freedom and tolerance, and it also contains the spirit of innovation. Scientific spirit is the pillar of academic innovation.
To meet the above two conditions, liberal arts graduate students should pay attention to cultivate their own innovative thinking, cultivate good personality cultivation, seek truth from facts and strive for strength, and at the same time abide by certain academic norms and academic ethics. Only in this way can we find problems from knowledge and experience, not shrink back in the face of difficulties, and reach the other side of academic innovation.
Innovative thinking seems mysterious, but it is actually very simple. Cultivating innovative thinking requires simple thinking. Simple thinking is not too rigid when thinking. Ideas must be simple, frank, free and simple. Takeo Kimchuo, a famous Japanese robot expert, especially advocates simple thinking. He believes that many important achievements are actually a little naive, naive or even far-fetched in the initial stage, but this free and simple thinking is often the source of academic innovation. Second, be diligent in thinking. Novel ideas are not a flash of inspiration, but the final result of long-term thinking, which requires us to develop the habit of thinking diligently in our lives. Only in this way can we meet the muse of inspiration one day. Third, focus on thinking. Professor Jin Xiong coined a word, wisdom and physical strength refers to the ability to think about the same problem for a long time or from different angles without getting bored. As researchers, we should cultivate our intelligence and physical strength, because without the intelligence and physical strength to overcome the anxiety about the unknown and persevere in order to get research results, it is difficult to study any results.
Fourth, improve your thinking in dealing with people. Communication is an important way to cultivate thinking ability, because when we express our ideas, we can sublimate our ideas into the acceptance of others; In the communication with others, you can also find unexpected places, so as to improve your own ideas.
The cultivation of scientific spirit requires us to correct the motivation of study and research, establish a correct academic concept, and have a correct motivation for academic innovation.
(3) Evaluation stage
The evaluation stage of thesis writing is the last stage of thesis writing, the process from the formation of the first draft to the final revision and polishing, and the perfect stage of innovation activities. At this stage, we must have 1) courage to deny ourselves; 2) Patience of repeated revision.
Completion of the first draft of the thesis For many graduate students, they feel that the work has been completed by 90%. In fact, the self-evaluation stage of the paper has just begun. At this stage, we should stand in an objective position, criticize our own papers from the perspective of others, and seriously judge their functional realization, novelty and practical value; You can also invite experienced professors and teachers to evaluate and further improve and improve the innovation level of the paper. At this time, the courage to dare to self-deny is necessary, because we may indeed have some shortcomings in the creation of the paper. At this stage, we should be brave enough to admit our shortcomings and actively improve them. Repeated revision is a necessary part of the self-evaluation paper, so you must have enough patience.
Four. conclusion
Innovation is the essence of academic paper writing. Liberal arts graduate students must persist in innovation when writing academic papers. This paper gives the conditions and requirements of each stage of thesis writing, hoping that the majority of liberal arts graduate students can find out the gap, make up for their own shortcomings and improve the innovation level of academic papers.