English majors can choose translation, teaching, linguistics, literature and other categories. Judging from the feelings of the students around us, the direction of translation and writing is relatively easy to start with. In contrast, teaching research papers need to spend a lot of time collecting data, issuing questionnaires, interviewing, doing data analysis and so on. This paper mainly discusses how to determine the theme of translation. First of all, we must determine our own research text.

It can be a book, a movie, on-site scenic spot translation study, etc ... mainly to choose the research object you are interested in. After all, writing a thesis is a long and boring process, and choosing a favorite text will be the reason why you want to stick to it. Secondly, it is to choose a more appropriate but less common translation theory, such as functional equivalence and teleology, and then study it from a relatively small angle in the text. In short, there must be one or two innovations in translation theory, text and starting point, so that it is not easy to bump into the topic.

Last year, when I took part in the opening defense alone, there were actually two students in the same defense field who had exactly the same theory and starting point as me! !

But fortunately, my writing is relatively new, I spent a lot of thought, and finally got an excellent paper. I would like to remind you that you should not be too anxious about choosing a topic, and you should go to HowNet repeatedly to see if your chosen theory can be applied to your own translation text research. There is not much related research, so more time should be invested in the early stage, and there is almost no big problem in starting writing in the later stage.

In fact, most of the papers written by undergraduates have no content, because they all summarize the research results of predecessors. The key is whether you can explain it in your own words, so as to avoid the imagination that HowNet is unqualified. Only the fourth chapter of the translation paper is its own content, so it takes a lot of time to find the most suitable examples and apply theory to achieve your ultimate goal. What needs everyone's attention here is that you must not make low-level grammar and language mistakes, which will be criticized to death by your tutor. Don't expect the tutor to give you content and grammar, he will only give you basic general directions and suggestions, and the writing of the thesis depends entirely on yourself.

I suggest you check it yourself before you repeat it at school. PaperPP is recommended in the paper series, which is more accurate. Turnitin is also a common duplicate checking system for English papers. Personally, I think it's a little high, and the price is in 4.0 yuan/thousand words. In addition, HowNet, VIP and Wanfang can also check English papers. The recheck rate of turnitin is 20%, and the recheck result of the school knowledge network is 7%. If you have enough review fees, you can use HowNet directly, and the result is the most accurate.

I think the most important thing in defending a thesis is to be familiar with your own thesis. I know that when the defense teacher asks you, you will know which chapter and position of the paper. It is best to preset the topic in advance. I am still lucky. My tutor has asked me three questions before, some of which I prepared. If you really don't understand, just apologize directly. As the saying goes, reply, indiscriminate direct answer, crazy apology.

Ok, that's all for today. I hope that this year's postgraduate er will come on! Writing a paper is not terrible. If you arrange your time reasonably, you can be admitted to graduate school and get excellent papers. Good luck!

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How to write a graduation thesis for English majors? 》