Graduation theses, which are now copied by hand, should be almost gone. However, there are still colleges and universities that have inherited hand-copied papers as a tradition.
No, on April 23, a netizen asked for help on the Internet, saying that his school required them to copy their graduation thesis. They wanted to compete with the school, but because of the style of study and the graduation books in their hands, he thought that his strength was too weak, so he went to the Internet to find allies, hoping to get the support of netizens to achieve his goals.
He claims to be a graduate of the Faculty of Arts at 211 Normal College. Students are required to copy their dissertation by hand after the oral defense. Of course, those with more than 30,000 words in the main body are exempt from copying.
In order to standardize copying, the college also issued several documents to make clear specifications for copying requirements: the specific format of the copied paper needs to be printed by the students themselves, 400 words per page, the pen of the copy should not be too thick, the volume should be kept clean, and the handwritten paper must be stacked in the order of "cover - Chinese abstract - English abstract - table of contents - thesis body - notes - references - appendices (with pictures) - acknowledgments - proposal report - defense record form - grade evaluation form".
And according to this netizen, every year the students of the college are miserable. The school has only one sentence for such feedback: "The law of the ancestors is immutable", and copying the graduation thesis is the tradition of the school, and it is also one of the characteristics of the school.
And this graduate is South China Normal University. Indeed, a few netizens complained, saying: "The Faculty of Arts has rules for hand-copying graduation theses, which I feel is very unreasonable." I have not heard of such a rule in other schools, and since last year, some students have expressed the hope that the regulations will be adjusted to cancel the hand-copied graduation thesis, but they have not been able to change it."
On April 23, the college also held a special meeting and made a reply on this matter: the hand-copied graduation thesis is one of the process documents, and the document has been uploaded to the system, "if it is not carried out according to the requirements, it will affect the certification of normal students". As a normal student of the Department of Chinese, the graduation thesis not only examines ability, but also assesses writing ability, which reflects the comprehensiveness of the assessment.
Graduates find this incomprehensible, believing that academic papers are more important than form. And if it is to examine the student's writing, isn't there a special assessment of three strokes and one stroke?
On the same day, the college issued a supplementary notice on the hand-copied manuscript of the 2020 graduation thesis, clarifying the copying form, transcription format, the provision of manuscript paper by the college, and the time for submission.
Judging from this action of the hospital, they have adhered to their own principles, that is, there is no room for negotiation in this matter.
Most of the netizens have supportive opinions on the hospital's approach:
When I was in graduate school, my supervisor asked me to copy a paper by hand at the end of one year, and the original words were, "I don't want to embarrass you, but I really want you to learn more." After graduating, I realized how rare that kind of well-intentioned work is. As a student, it is reasonable to resist writing? ”
"I think the requirements of the college are very right, and a student of the Faculty of Arts does not dare to copy his graduation thesis with a pen?
"The Faculty of Arts requires students to have a certain level of writing ability, which is not excessive. Although paperless is now advocated, many people's poor writing ability does not affect their daily work. But this is a liberal arts college, and the requirements for literary accomplishment are higher than those of other majors, and you can't even write well, or even don't want to write, so how can you be embarrassed to say that you are studying literature?"
"At first glance, it's a normal university, this requirement is no problem, how can you teach children if you can't even write well? Writing ability is a basic quality requirement, and many normal colleges and universities don't even practice board writing now."
"What's the dissatisfaction? Lazy! What kind of culture do undergraduates have now? Graduate students are not even top college students in the eighties and nineties, and they are still lazy out of the circle. ”
"In the past, when I recruited new employees, I sent applicants a form for them to fill in, and if they did not fill in the form and directly handed in the printed resume information, they were basically not hired; This will allow you to weed out most of the candidates first. ”
Judging from the comments of netizens, they all support the school's approach. It's actually quite understandable. Now college students are really reluctant to write, because the words are really not handy. A college student is reluctant to write even a word, and such laziness is really speechless. A paper is only 30,000 words, how much time does it take to copy? There is no reason, it is just a lazy word.
It is said that words are the façade of a person. If you don't even dare to write, what kind of face do you have? Therefore, the author believes that the Faculty of Liberal Arts of South China Normal University has done a good job.
In addition, there is one of the most important things, that is, this college itself is a liberal arts college, and many people will become teachers in the future, and they need to be able to write well. If a teacher can't write well, how can he educate and influence other students? Isn't this the basic skill that normal students should have? What is the need to complain about this? It's really too comfortable, and I've never encountered a bit of pressure, so I'm too lazy to even do it. Such a person is really contemptible.
Dear readers, what do you want to say about the fact that the School of Liberal Arts of South China Normal University requires students to copy their graduation theses after passing the defense?
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