The annual graduation season is approaching, and many college students must be anxious about their graduation thesis and finding a job.
The School of Liberal Arts of South China Normal University has a strange requirement for the graduation thesis, which has aroused strong dissatisfaction among students.
211 Normal Colleges require students to copy their graduation theses by hand and threaten them with graduation.
Recently, some netizens posted on social networking sites, saying that the Faculty of Arts of a 211 Normal University requires students to hand-copy their graduation theses after the defense.
Students don't dare to fight the threat of credits and graduation, so they post for the opinions of netizens.
Every year, graduates are tormented by this regulation. Every year, graduates report this situation to the Registrar's Office and the Faculty.
The feedback received was prevarication such as "the law of the ancestors is immutable" and "this is the tradition and characteristic of the college". Even threatening students with credits and graduation.
It is said that the hand-copied graduation thesis is a process document for graduation, and if it is not completed in accordance with the process, it will affect the certification of credits and normal students, and directly affect the graduation of students.
Transcription requires up to seven documents, and even requires that the pen should not be too thick
In the documents sent by netizens, it can be seen that there are as many as seven documents issued by the college, among which there are detailed explanations of the submission time, table of contents, abstracts, transcription paper, notes, etc. It can't be said that it is not detailed.
Students need to print the paper for copying, and each paper requires 400 words to be written, and even the pen used for copying should not be too thick.
When you open the document, you don't just have to ask for the order in which the manuscript is stacked. It is also required that there should be no more than two typos per page.
Even the font size of the hand-copied is explained in detail: both Chinese and English abstracts are required to be preceded by the words "small number 2 in center and bold bold".
The computer can control the size of the font, but the hand-copied version also requires the font size to be controlled.
Students' questions and demands
Regarding this strange regulation, the students of the school raised their own questions and demands, and also expressed the voices of the majority of netizens.
- Does the state have official documents requiring graduates to copy papers by hand? Does the school have a reasonable basis for the certification process for teacher titles? If not, why threaten students with graduation if they don't copy their papers?
- In today's world where information technology is so developed, is it conservative to still insist on traditional hand-copied papers?
- How are the hand-copied papers stored every year? If they turn in and turn them into waste paper, will the students' hard work be wasted? Will the so-called "traditions and characteristics" become formalism?
- Is the standard for judging whether a graduate can graduate in the form of a graduation thesis or the content in it?
- If it is said that the purpose of copying a paper by hand is to allow students to practice calligraphy, when the student has passed the assessment of three strokes and one stroke of the normal student, is the act of drawing a snake?
Tradition and character are not equated with formalism
Shaanxi Normal University, which is widely praised for the handwritten admission letter of the old professor.
It expresses the school's respect and care for the new students, which not only makes the emotions contained in the notice thicker, but also shows the school's humanistic and cultural heritage as a normal university, which is touching.
South China Normal University, in the graduation season when students are overwhelmed, requires students to write papers by hand with the dual blessing of thesis and job search, which is also called tradition and characteristics.
In fact, it has really increased the burden on students, and the two are immediately superior.
Final words
The foundation of education comes from the school.
Cultivating innovative talents is the foundation of development. Hand-copied papers not only expose the formalism in the education system, but also reflect the neglect of the cultivation of innovation ability in some schools.
This neglect is even glorified as "tradition and characteristic".
If the purpose of the school is to test the student's handwriting, then there are other more appropriate ways to do so.
Cultivating students' abilities by copying papers by hand is not only not suitable for the development of the contemporary information society, but also consumes a lot of students' time and energy, which is useless and outdated in today's digital world.
The original intention of the school may have been to cultivate the rigor of students, but it exposed its inefficiency, inadaptability and lack of modernity.
Exploring more humane, implementable, and effective assessment methods is the first step towards innovation for the school.
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