A master's thesis has multiple basic language errors How to check graduate education?

Master's thesis is not known how to check graduate education

A few days ago, some netizens disclosed a message that in a master's degree thesis of a university, there were more than a dozen basic language errors in the three-page content. Leaving aside the academic quality of the paper, from the perspective of basic grammar alone, there are many confusing words. For example, the fifth chapter begins with a lot of errors: "The way access to information continues to expand and mothers and children access user information becomes more and more diverse, but in the process of rapidly expanding power, users search for information." In addition, it is heavy and has a lot of useful information..."

Mistakes that even elementary school students find it difficult to make appear in graduate students' papers, and it is no longer a matter of written proficiency. These low-level errors are most likely to circumvent the "checkup" system. It is really difficult to imagine, how does such a paper pass through layers of academic "leaders"? Have students seen it themselves? Has the mentor seen it? Has the Defense Committee seen it? Would a professor at a 211 university not be able to see such a low-level error? There may be only one answer: no one is looking seriously.

This may be just an extreme case of a school, which cannot be said to be an overall decrease in the quality of graduate students, but it also reflects from one side that individual schools and tutors do not strictly control the quality of graduate students. The latest news, after the preliminary verification of the graduate school of this university, the author of the paper, Xiong Mou, is worried that the repetition rate of the paper is too high, and privately uses translation software to reduce the weight of part of the paper directly without review, and the paper supervisor Cao Mou did not seriously review, resulting in the emergence of problem papers. In this regard, from 2022, the tutor's graduate enrollment qualifications will be stopped, and the school will organize experts to re-evaluate the paper, and the follow-up will be seriously handled in strict accordance with the norms according to the verification and evaluation.

With the expansion of college enrollment, the scale of graduate school enrollment is also continuing to grow, and the scale of graduate enrollment in 2021 will reach about 1.2 million. In 1998, before the expansion of college enrollment, the total enrollment of colleges and universities in the country was only 1.08 million, and the enrollment of graduate students was only more than 57,000. Objectively speaking, in today's popularization of higher education, some people who are not suitable for or even have research ability have poured into the army of examination and research, which is a reason for the decline in the quality of some graduate training.

Some professors have bluntly criticized the basic presentation skills of some graduate students, lamenting that the papers that guide these graduate students are a kind of torture. With the expansion of the scale of graduate school enrollment, the number of graduate tutors has also grown rapidly, and it has reached more than 400,000 people, and it cannot be denied that there are indeed individual tutors who abuse the number of tutors. In the context of undergraduate and graduate degree applications and graduation examinations that are not simply linked to the publication of papers in academic journals, it is crucial for schools and supervisors to check papers.

In order to strengthen the quality supervision of graduate students, the Ministry of Education and other departments have also taken various measures. For example, increase the intensity of external review and sampling of papers, and according to the results of sampling, give the relevant departments and tutors who are not strictly controlled, give the punishment of reducing the enrollment quota, and even stop the enrollment, the purpose is to hope that the tutor will do a good job in the first pass, and the department will do a good job in the second pass. In recent years, the proportion of papers sampled by various universities has increased significantly, which has played a good deterrent effect. But judging from this paper, it is clear that the work done by departments and supervisors is not enough.

For graduate students who do have competency problems, we may need to study the exit mechanism and the honors graduate system. The popularization of higher education, so that some students with problems with learning ability and attitude have also obtained learning opportunities, there are many difficulties and risks in directly eliminating these students, so it is necessary to seek a new exit mechanism, such as the establishment of a doctoral to master's exit mechanism, for masters, you can refer to the Western honor graduate system, divided into levels, especially master's degrees. To a certain extent, this not only ensures the quality of training, but also gives students a certain "way out".

At present, the Ministry of Science and Technology has announced a new list of theories for the handling of fraud, canceling the qualifications of counterfeiters to apply for relevant projects and titles within a certain number of years. For those students who ignore the rules and lack a sense of responsibility, we need to punish them severely, not just scratch the itchy warning.

Chen Zhiwen

Source: China Youth Daily