Thesis is a Chinese word, and its pinyin is lùnwén, which is a common word in classical literature and refers to conversation or exchange of ideas. Including academic papers, graduation papers, dissertations, scientific papers, achievement papers and so on.

Contemporary papers often refer to articles that conduct research in various academic fields and describe academic research results, which are referred to as papers for short. It is not only a means to discuss problems in academic research, but also a tool to describe academic research results in academic exchanges.

With the rapid development of computer technology and Internet, online query, retrieval and download of professional data has become an important means of scientific and technological information retrieval.

Abstract index is an important tool for readers to retrieve literature, which provides convenience for the construction and maintenance of scientific and technological information literature retrieval database. It is a comprehensive introduction to the paper, so that people can understand the main contents of the paper. The quality of abstracts directly affects the retrieval rate and citation frequency of papers.

After the paper is published, the abstract can be directly used by abstract magazines or various databases without modification or slight modification, so that readers can know the main contents of the paper as soon as possible to supplement the deficiency of the title, thus avoiding misunderstandings, deficiencies and even mistakes that may occur when others compile the abstract.

Academic papers are the knowledge and scientific records of an academic subject with new scientific research achievements or innovative ideas in experiments, theories or observations;

Or apply the known principles to the scientific summary of the new progress made in practice for reading, communication or discussion at academic conferences; Or published in academic journals; Or written documents for other purposes.

In the field of social sciences, people usually refer to papers expressing scientific research achievements as academic papers. An academic thesis written by a degree applicant is called a degree thesis. This kind of thesis is an important condition for evaluating whether an applicant can be awarded a degree.

Degree applicants will be awarded if they can pass the required course examinations and pass the thesis examination and defense. If an applicant for a degree passes the course examination, but his thesis is rated as unqualified in the defense, then he will not be awarded a degree.

A graduation thesis that is qualified to apply for a degree and written for it is called a dissertation and a bachelor's degree thesis. A bachelor's degree thesis is both a degree thesis and a graduation thesis.