1、 本科畢業論文寫作 河北工業大學外國語學院Major aims of writing graduation thesiso The ability to select significant questiono The ability to locate and review previous researcho The ability to make their own analysis in researcho The ability to express things appropriately in Englisho the ability to follow the scholarl

2、y style and format河北工業大學外國語學院Defining graduation thesis for BAo Personal essays requires much more personal knowledge and experience.o Research paper should draw on original conclusion based on information derived from researcho Research is the systematic application of scientific methods to the stu

3、dy of problems.o The tasks of the researcher are: to ask good questions, to select the best way to find the answers, and to interpret the findings in a way you can justify.河北工業大學外國語學院Types of researcho Primary research: generating new ideas and information on your own (empirical research).o Secondar

4、y research involves gathering and narrowing the research findings from other peoples research. We are expected to develop our abilities through planning and writing our theses to learn: how to investigate, review, and productively use information, ideas, and opinions of other researchers; how to use

5、 information with our ideas and present our thoughts, opinions, and conclusions convincingly.河北工業大學外國語學院Major features of graduation thesiso Cultivation of your ability to review and analyzeo Narrow topic: try to write more and more on less and less.o Multisources: If you copy from one person, you a

6、re stealing. If you are copying from a hundred people, you are doing research.o Objective in tone: you should avoid your own personality prominent. Avoid first-person pronounso No plagiarism河北工業大學外國語學院Major components of graduation thesiso The title: it should be concise as well as descriptive and c

7、omprehensive with 10-15 words. Avoid using questions, vague and general statement.o Abstract: it is not to evaluate, but rather to describe the thesis. It should have a brief statement of the research question, research method, perspective of the analysis, design and conclusion or major argument.o T

8、able of contents: the numbering of the chapters and the wording, capitalization, and the same as they are in the thesis.o The thesis proper; Notes；references河北工業大學外國語學院Types of graduation thesis and their formats(empirical research paper)o Introduction: should introduce the subject; importance and v

9、alidity of the problem chosen to study; the potential contribution of the study and background information. You should make a clear and concise statement of the problem, hypothesis; statistical study of the variables; the procedure for collecting data.河北工業大學外國語學院Types of graduation thesis and their

10、formats(empirical research paper)o The review of related research and literature: it should not summarize a series of books and articles, rather, it should call attention to the most important previous work, identify the place of your work in relation to their research, presenting agreement and disa

11、greement in the field; evaluating the existing research; organizing the review by topic rather than by author, avoiding unnecessary quotations to focus the review of research河北工業大學外國語學院Types of graduation thesis and their formats(empirical research paper)o Methods of the investigation: it should dis

12、cuss the nature of the sample, the data needed to test the hypotheses or to answer the questions, the sources of data, and the procedure followed in gathering and analyzing the data, giving information of participants, materials and procedures.河北工業大學外國語學院Types of graduation thesis and their formats(

13、empirical research paper)o Results: it should present the results of the investigation., reporting negative as well as positive results. The necessary figures and tables should supplement the text rather than substitute for it.o Discussion and interpretation: to interpret the results and formulate y

14、our conclusion河北工業大學外國語學院Types of graduation thesis and their formats(library research paper)o The introduction should define your topic and research focus, describe the background of previous work in the field and explain the importance of your topic. o Body: it should develop and present your argu

15、ment in a logical and systematical way.o Conclusion； findings, significance, future directions 河北工業大學外國語學院Choosing a topic: writing about linguistics and TEFLo Criteria for a topic: a good topic should be interesting, significant, researchable, and modest.o Steps to choose a topic:o 1) Choose a subj

16、ect area: literature, linguistics, TEFL, translation, other areaso 2) Identify a research interest or research topico 3) Narrow down the topic as much as possibleo 4) Review the literature as completely as possibleo 5) State the problem in a question formo 6) Turn your research question into a thesi

17、s statement河北工業大學外國語學院Choosing a topic: writing about linguistics and TEFLo A tree diagram for the topic choosing processo English language teaching and learningo Teachers/Teaching Learners/Learning/ Language and cultureo Theories, styles, strategies, individual differenceso Cognitive, affective, so

18、cial-cultural, personalityo Confidence, attitude, motivation, interest河北工業大學外國語學院Relationships between topic, question and thesis statemento Topic refers to a broad range or general field of interesto Question indicates a particular part or aspect of a topic that is narrow enough to investigate and

19、write abouto Thesis statement is an assumption about your topic, an approach to it, an attitude toward it, a proposition to be examined.河北工業大學外國語學院Relationships between topic, question and thesis statemento Examples of topics, questions and thesis statemento American literature in the 1920so What ar

20、e the major trends of it?o It depicts a growing anxiety regarding the dehumanizing effects of industrializationo Metaphoro What are the effects of metaphorical use of language?o Metaphors at different levels add lots of power to the languageo Exercise: make your own topic, questions and statement河北工

21、業大學外國語學院Choosing a topic: writing about literatureo Two elements: o objective reporting and subjective analysiso In objective reporting, you introduce the work in a condensed, concise form and demonstrate your understanding of the works plot.o In subjective analysis, you share your opinion and feeli

22、ngs about a literary work with an intention to evaluate the writing.河北工業大學外國語學院Finding an approach to literary analysiso Examine your subjects at various aspectso Compare and contrasto Establish relationships among ideas河北工業大學外國語學院Major topics of literary analysiso Analysis of themeo Analysis of the structureo Analysis of character and characterizationo Analysis of settingo Analysis of language河北工業大學外國語學院Major topics of translation stud