Graduation thesis season of ＂Yan Chu Times＂： The pain comes from the lack of practice at ordinary times.

　　In June, many print shops in universities began to get busy. Papers are printed and bound from here, and the eyes of college students around the machine are full of expectation, comfort and a little relief. Those who can walk into the print shop are the "winners in life" in this graduation thesis season, because they have finally reached the final step of graduation thesis completion.

　　In the dormitory next to the printing shop and in the library not far away, many students are still revising their papers over and over again. The hot topic "How strict is the duplicate checking of papers" in Weibo, which has a reading volume of 150 million, is all their voices. Last year, after the university entered the "strict era", the auditing standards for graduation thesis in colleges and universities have improved a lot. Therefore, this essay season is much more difficult for many college students than in previous years.

　　Strict word is the first word, and the paper "paddling" has become a past tense.

　　"Are you sleeping? But I can’t sleep while I’m writing a paper. " Many students sigh in the circle of friends late at night.

　　Qu Weiwei, a master graduate from a university in Hunan Province, found that this year’s graduation season was more difficult than last year.

　　"The school obviously has much higher requirements for graduate students than last year. Our paper duplicate checking standard is 20%. Even if the paper didn’t meet the duplicate checking standard before, it can be changed to more than 30% ‘ Paddle ’ Passed, but now it is stuck 20%. " Qu Weiwei said.

　　As early as last September, the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Paying Close Attention to the Implementation of the Spirit of the National Conference on Undergraduate Education in Colleges and Universities in the New Era, emphasizing that colleges and universities should comprehensively sort out the teaching contents of various courses, eliminate "water courses", create "gold courses", strictly control the exit of graduation, and resolutely cancel the "clear examination" system.

　　In October of the same year, the Opinions on Speeding up the Construction of High-level Undergraduate Education and Comprehensively Improving Talents Training Ability (hereinafter referred to as "40 Articles on Higher Education in the New Era") issued by the Ministry of Education clearly stated that the whole process management of graduation design (thesis) topics selection, topic opening and defense should be strengthened, and the form, content and difficulty should be strictly monitored to improve the quality of graduation design (thesis). Strengthening the management of undergraduate graduation project (thesis) is a measure to pay close attention to undergraduate education and teaching.

　　This year’s graduation season, many colleges and universities have strengthened their management on "strict out". In April, Tsinghua University released the latest revised "Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Administrative Provisions on Disciplinary Actions of Students in Tsinghua University", in which the remarkable change is that the punishment for academic misconduct has been increased, and the plagiarism of dissertations can be expelled from school. The original punishment was to give "the above punishment."

　　On May 6th, the Academic Affairs Office of Emei Campus of Southwest Jiaotong University issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in Checking the Duplicate of Graduation Design (Thesis) in 2019, which shows that the duplicate checking of graduation design (Thesis) will increase the comparison database of college students’ theses (including this one). If students from the same department and school are found to plagiarize from each other, the Academic Affairs Office will start the investigation procedure, and the situation will be dealt with strictly.

　　In addition, the school also requires teachers and students to sign a "commitment letter", promising that they have studied the Measures for Dealing with False Dissertations by the Ministry of Education, the Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Education on Strictly Investigating the Sale and Writing of Dissertations in Colleges and Universities, etc., and strictly implement the requirements of the Ministry of Education and the school on the management of graduates’ student status, curriculum assessment and graduation design (thesis) documents.

　　"In the past, because of the wide policy, we can use Taobao, which is not accurate but affordable, to check the weight, but now it is required to be based on HowNet, and each check needs more than 200 yuan." Qu Weiwei said.

　　Behind the word "Yan", the pain in the essay season is usually "lack of cultivation"

　　For many college students, the "difficulty" of the thesis season is the whole process, from the topic selection to the thesis defense.

　　In the view of Wang Xudong, a senior student in the School of Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, writing the paper itself is not the most difficult, but the experimental part in the paper. He said that at the beginning of his graduation project, the topic selection and opening defense were relatively simple, but he was still secretly "glad" when he encountered a series of troubles.

　　"Because of a small formula error, hundreds of calculation results were all invalid, and a week’s efforts fell short. Every time I finally made new progress, I took it to discuss with my teachers and seniors, and then I found myself making many low-level mistakes, so I had no choice but to start all over again. In addition, because my graduation project is a theoretical research, I can’t prove the theoretical results through rigorous experiments with my current ability. This is also a problem I have encountered, that is, there is no strong practice to support the theoretical conclusions. "

　　Yu Zhenyuan, a senior graduate of Xi ‘an Jiaotong University, said that the graduation process was "extremely difficult". "I need to use a more complicated test-bed for my graduation experiment, but any link of this test-bed will go wrong. We have to fix it from beginning to end. In the experiment, what I don’t know accounts for the majority, and what I can really understand accounts for the minority. My data are very strange. "

　　In addition to the hardware itself, accurate chemical experiments also have high requirements for personal operation. On the morning of the interview with China Youth Daily and Zhongqing Online reporter, Yu Zhenyuan broke the instrument due to operational errors, which made him very upset.

　　Regarding the "pain" of college students in the graduation thesis season, Xu Fei, president of Southwest Jiaotong University, said in an exclusive interview with China Youth Daily and Zhongqing Online reporter that "students have problems in knowledge, ability and expression, and graduation thesis writing makes these problems gather together, which leads to the misery of students."

　　Xu Fei believes that the quality of college students’ graduation thesis is not high at this stage, which is mainly reflected in the lack of solid knowledge, the lack of depth and comprehensive ability of students to master theory, and the poor ability of independent thinking, investigation and research, problem solving and analysis, which leads to the lack of novelty, depth and innovation in the research topic of graduation thesis.

　　"If a student usually does well, he should not feel very painful when writing a paper. Instead, the paper should be a stage for him to show himself." Xu Fei said.

　　What abilities can solve the problem of "paper difficulty"

　　In recent years, many experts and college teachers have said that the poor quality of college students’ graduation thesis is mainly due to their lack of study and training in scientific writing, which leads them to write their graduation thesis for the first time in their lives. Students don’t know where to start, instructors are miserable, and the quality of papers is often not high.

　　In this regard, Xu Fei believes that it is necessary to improve students’ scientific writing level, and senior undergraduate students should set up relevant elective courses to teach students how to conduct scientific research and academic writing, or give guidance to students on how to write graduation thesis through academic lectures.

　　Last year, Qiu Yong, president of Tsinghua University, announced the opening of "Writing and Communication" course for freshmen in 2018, which is expected to cover all undergraduates by 2020, and strive to provide courses and guidance for graduate students. This has aroused widespread concern in society. At the end of May, Tsinghua University Writing and Communication Teaching Center issued a notice for recruiting teachers, and recruited 10 more teachers for outstanding scholars, postdoctoral students and fresh doctoral students at home and abroad.

　　It is reported that the course adopts two parallel modes: one credit and two credits. What each class teaches together is mainly the paradigm of reasoning writing and how to modify and perfect an article. More specifically, it mainly includes choosing the topic, sorting out the ideas of the article, establishing the logical structure, checking and modifying the grammatical errors, elegant expression, etc., but the topic is chosen by the students themselves. It is not mandatory to use uniform teaching materials in the course, but the consistency of training requirements in the whole process is important.

　　Peng Gang, a professor in the history department of Tsinghua University and director of the Academic Affairs Office, once said that writing training should first be thinking training. "It is very important for students to find a problem and think from different angles. If you want to write, you must first learn to think, and learn to think methodically and hierarchically. This is also the highest standard I expect: the writing course not only exercises students’ writing ability, but also enables students to ‘ Open your eyes ’ General course ".

　　As for the students’ "miserable" in the graduation thesis season, Xu Fei thinks that there are several reasons besides the lack of writing ability.

　　From the students’ point of view, they usually have a lot of knowledge, but they are not solid enough to learn, and there is a phenomenon of superficial and superficial. Students rely too much on search engines in their daily study, and there are deficiencies in memory and independent thinking. "Everything is at your fingertips, and everything has an answer. Students will feel ‘ Why am I still studying ’ This is a big misunderstanding. "

　　On the other hand, students’ knowledge is fragmented, not structured, organized and systematic, and they have not incorporated other people’s knowledge into their own knowledge system. This leads to students being "dumbfounded" when they finally need organized text presentation.

　　Moreover, "many schools are short of teachers, and teachers put more energy into scientific research. In terms of teaching, the energy put on undergraduates is different from that put on master students and doctoral students. Undergraduates are the group with the least energy input from teachers, which is also an important reason for the difficulty in writing students’ papers. "

　　Xu Fei believes that although from the perspective of academic degree regulations, undergraduates are not like master students and doctoral students, they have to submit papers to obtain their degrees, but it is necessary to adhere to the practice of requiring undergraduates to submit graduation papers. "Graduation thesis can comprehensively show and test students’ mastery of what they have learned and their ability to solve practical problems by using what they have learned. It is more important for undergraduates to write graduation thesis, from topic selection to data collection, to paper organization, writing, revision and final drafting, which is the most basic process of academic research and academic training".

　　"Graduation thesis is the last big homework for students." Xu Fei said.

　　(At the request of the interviewee, Qu Weiwei and Yu Zhenyuan are both pseudonyms.)

　　China Youth Daily Zhongqing Online Reporter Sara Ye Intern Ye Wei