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"What is CNKI?"
In the countless late nights of fighting for papers, a group of master's and doctoral students will always have such a sentence flashing in their minds.
Since Zhai Tianlin was exposed to the academic misconduct of the doctoral dissertation suspected of plagiarism in 2019, the repetition rate of papers in major universities has increased significantly, and the standardization of papers has entered a period of harshness.
After the Zhai Tianlin incident, the difficulty of the graduation thesis has increased by countless steps, and the majority of students who are close to the graduation period have wailed endlessly, so every time at this time, Zhai Tianlin's social platform will become a target and window for prospective graduates to vent. Even after 3 years, his Weibo will still be sprayed to the sky by the master's and doctoral students who write papers...
Casually click on a Weibo, you can see the high heat of the comments
No matter what he sent, there were people who were worried about writing papers, and they couldn't let go for a long time.
There are also people who regularly dedicate the weibo of writing papers late at night to breaking defenses to Teacher Zhai.
As some netizens summed up, "No one will always scold Zhai Tianlin, but there will always be people who scold Zhai Tianlin."
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Three years have passed, classmate, how has your thesis changed?
chain reaction
The most rigorous review of papers in history began
Zhai Tianlin, born in February 1987 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, graduated from the 2006 undergraduate acting class of the Beijing Film Academy, and Chinese mainland film and television actor.
In 2019, Zhai Tianlin posted his admission letter from Peking University on Weibo and officially became a postdoctoral fellow at Guanghua School of Management, which is another "student bully" persona who has firmly established himself after obtaining a postgraduate degree from the Beijing Film Academy. In a live broadcast on February 8, he was asked by netizens whether he could find his graduation thesis on CNKI, but replied: "What is CNKI", which triggered the touch of academia and public opinion.
Zhai Tianlin was then found by netizens to have a repetition rate of 40.4% of his 2700-word article, confirming the title of "academic misconduct". The continuous fermentation on social platforms has aroused the great attention of relevant departments. The Ministry of Education has stepped up its crackdown on academic fraud.
That is, since this year, in the graduation season of the past three years, many colleges and universities have made adjustments in the check rate. The specific number varies from school to school or major, but the most stringent requirements are even within 5%.
In this way, a "do not know the network" storm, affected all the new graduates of the country, their graduation thesis difficulty rose sharply up countless steps, the school's audit standards can be called the most difficult in history, many students complained bitterly.
First of all, at the beginning of 2019, with the uproar caused by the Zhai Tianlin incident, "carrying out the sampling of doctoral and master's degree dissertations" was included in the key work of the Ministry of Education that year, and 8 million yuan of education funds were invested to randomly check the graduation theses of fresh graduate students, of which the sampling rate of doctors was about 10% and that of masters was about 5%.
Correspondingly, the school's requirements for students have become more stringent. In the past, only a few faculties and departments were blindly examined, but now most faculties require that graduation thesis must pass the "blind review" before the defense. Blind review experts have also changed from three to five, but if one gives a "failed" opinion, the paper will be rewritten back, and the revision rate needs to reach more than 50%, before it can be re-sent to the expert for review.
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Correspondingly, universities are also more stringent in the paper review, and the check even includes chinese and English abstracts and references. Xiao Liu, from Fudan University's School of Tourism Management, said the check-up rate was reduced from 20 percent in previous years to 10 percent. Between 10% and 20%, it is necessary for the department to organize expert appraisal, and if there is no suspicion of academic misconduct, the paper can be modified before it can enter the procedure of submitting the paper for review.
Not only fresh graduates, but also graduated masters and doctors do not mean entering the "safe".
Since 2020, many regions have required the provincial education department to begin to carry out a re-sampling of the master's degree theses that have been awarded.
On the one hand, the school will be interviewed, on the other hand, the guidance tutor will immediately stop recruiting that year.
Under all kinds of intensive scrutiny, the most stringent thesis review in history has indeed begun, and therefore, students who graduated after the Zhai Tianlin incident will jokingly call it "Tianlin X Year". And the graduates who were tortured late at night will always choose to go to Zhai Tianlin's Weibo to break the defense.
Elite fooling has never gone away
In fact, the existence of the double-check rate is originally to avoid academic misconduct such as plagiarism and plagiarism. Reducing the repetition rate strictly requires that there is no problem in looking at it.
But they ignore the differences between disciplines. For example, liberal arts masters and doctoral degrees, theoretical innovation must also be based on the predecessors, but when you cite the original text of the literature is also marked in red, many students can not write a paper.
In addition, behind the strictness of the check, colleges and universities hope that students can have unique innovations in writing, but innovative points are not things that can be grasped at hand.
In fact, many graduate students do not know what topic to do in their final year, and our test-taking education model makes most students only passively accept knowledge, so that the ability to find problems, analyze problems and solve problems is seriously lacking.
Where is your innovation in the selection of topics? Where is your theoretical innovation? What are the innovations in your research? Contemporary graduate students, when they hear the three words "innovation point", they collapse. Image source: Weibo screenshot
A doctoral supervisor said bluntly in an interview with reporters: "After graduating from 211 colleges and universities, some students who graduated from 211 colleges and universities said to me very confusedly, "Teacher, you let me read thirty papers from THE KNOWLEDGE Network, but I don't know what they are talking about, and I don't know how to put forward my own views." ”
"Will not summarize and refine the views from the literature, will not put forward and solve problems, there is no awareness of problems, the writing ability is seriously insufficient, whether it is a formal specification or a content specification, there are many shortcomings, how can it be an excellent graduation thesis?" ”
Behind the increase in the re-examination rate is not only the reduction of the number of re-examinations, but also the leap-forward increase in the skill level requirements of graduate students. Coupled with the fact that the double-check method of the current double-check channel is too rigid, a line of 7 words will be marked, even if it is a science and engineering student who relies on solid operation to obtain first-hand experimental data and materials, it is inevitable to use more than 7 words of material names and proper nouns in the expression.
There are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom.
Under such harsh conditions, in order to avoid weight checking, some foolish elite studies were also quietly born.
Some time ago, a master's thesis of Nanchang University was exposed by netizens on the Internet because of 20 lines of errors in 75 lines of text, and the word order was not clear when read.
5.1.2 "This complete live broadcasting platform has a certain degree of originality, flexible format and rich and diverse content" Platform has a flexible format? Let people read in the clouds and fog.
Subsequently, Nanchang University verified the master's thesis for the first time and released the verification report online.
Nanchang University mentioned in the verification note. After the paper was finalized, the author of the paper, Xiong Mou, was worried that the repetition rate of the paper was too high, and privately used the translation software to reduce the weight of part of the paper and submitted it directly without review, and the paper supervisor Cao Mou did not seriously review it, resulting in the emergence of problem papers.
He also said that this paper will be re-examined, and the follow-up will be seriously handled in strict accordance with the norms according to the verification and review. The student's tutor also stopped the tutor's graduate enrollment qualifications from 2022 due to the neglect of the student's management.
In order to reduce weight in the form of software translation? Many netizens said: Strange knowledge has increased...
But for master's and doctoral students who have written papers, this method of reducing weight with translation software is only one of the "basic operations".
Under the premise of ensuring that the meaning of the article remains unchanged, if you want to reduce the weight, you can only start from the arrangement and use of words in the text.
Therefore, the method of translating the paper into Russian first, then into Japanese, then into English, and then back has become the secret of everyone's "tacit statement".
The double check itself is correct, but the roughness of the technique of the check, the arbitrariness of the standard, the unqualified paper after the "check", completely left to the machine to judge, manslaughter and wrong killing, it is inevitable. The above-mentioned chaos of "checking the weight" will inevitably make the graduates complain. And Zhai Tianlin is just an air bag under this chaos.
Netizens' jokes about contemporary checks
Rigid retracement vulnerabilities need to be noted
It has been three years since 2019. Every year during the graduation season, there will be countless people who are troubled by papers venting on social platforms, or directly to Zhai Tianlin's own Weibo message.
The graduates felt that since zhai Tianlin's academic misconduct incident, because of him, he had to spend hundreds or even thousands of more than a few hundred or even thousands of heavy checks every year, not to mention, and he had to stay up late to change his papers. Even Weibo set up a super talk #Zhai Tian Lin sleep or not..
Whenever it was late at night, they would always be kindly concerned about Zhai Tianlin's sleep.
The popularity of this topic, I will give you a few screenshots to see.
Some questioned Zhai Tianlin: Zhai Tianlin, have you slept? Can you sleep? Do you sleep well? Do you know how expensive it is to check the weight? Do you know how hard it is to lower weight? ......
There are also complaints: tomorrow morning at eight o'clock in the morning, just finished checking the weight, you can no longer fight, to change the format. Zhai Tianlin, I hate you. At the end, don't forget to greet you, is Zhai Tianlin asleep?
Until the evening of May 23, 2021, some netizens left a message under Zhai Tianlin's social platform, "Zhai Tianlin, my paper has not been checked, have you slept?" ”
Zhai Tianlin replied to a number of netizens continuously, encouraging everyone to cheer up and write papers: "If you scold me for making you write a good paper, I can accept it", "I think I have also endured a lot", "About cnki, talk about it another day, I also have grievances".
On May 24, 2021, Zhai Tianlin directly sent a Weibo, responding for the first time to the graduation season scolding incident...
He said: "I know that the process of writing a paper is very difficult, and if scolding can help everyone relieve the pressure of the essay season, then I think it is also a meaningful thing to be scolded." I hope that everyone is civilized and cathartic, and after the catharsis is over, come on! Blessed (blessed). ”
This time, in addition to denouncing Zhai Tianlin's voice, another point of view began to be repeatedly mentioned in the comment area.
Many people question whether Zhai Tianlin's paper is what we often call "water" because of weight reduction. Otherwise, why should you be afraid of lowering the weight when you write it yourself?
It is undeniable that a considerable number of people do complete their thesis by means of large-scale copying and pasting at the time of graduation, and the common divine strategies on various platforms such as "writing a master's thesis in a week" and "how to pass the blind review in 4 days" have received a lot of attention, and the concept of "taking into account internships and job searches, and completing the thesis quickly" has also formed a microclimate...
But as mentioned above, the reduction in the repetition rate does kill many normal papers while killing these "hydrology".
In the final analysis, our rigid weight check system urgently needs a change, and it is correct to check the original, but it is overcorrected, and it will lose its original intention.
At present, I also hope that everyone can write their own papers in a down-to-earth manner, life in the sea, and I hope that we will successfully land in the sea of graduate school.
Cheers everyone for graduation season!