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An Old Hand's Heartfelt Guide to Emergency Thesis Rescue

发布时间：Date: 2018-04-16

Targeting the writing difficulties international students face during the thesis stage, this article provides a practical emergency self-rescue guide, focusing on thesis writing strategies and methods for gathering materials. It suggests that students first create an outline to clarify the logic, start writing from the body of the paper, and finally complete the introduction and abstract, effectively avoiding writer's block and greatly improving efficiency. Additionally, the article compiles authoritative domestic and international literature and data resource websites, including CNKI, IEEE, National Data, etc., to help students obtain high-quality reference materials precisely. CheersYou（清柚教育） reminds international students that mastering scientific writing methods and reliable material channels is key to successfully completing the graduation thesis, and wishes everyone passes efficiently and achieves excellent results.

Chapter 1: Clarify Your Thesis Writing Approach

Most papers start with an introduction, which mainly introduces the background/research status of the topic. Here is a recommended writing sequence and method:

Based on the proposal and relevant literature, first write an outline to clarify the logic of the article and what each section should contain
Start from the middle; don't get stuck on the introduction. The introduction needs to be adjusted according to the content of the paper, so it can be written last
Finally, complete the conclusion, references, acknowledgments, introduction, abstract, and keywords

Chapter 2: Gather Literature and Data Needed for Your Thesis

For undergraduate thesis references, you can use CNKI. For those writing in English, add IEEE. This chapter organizes several literature websites:

1. CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)

http://www.cnki.net

Highly recommended. As long as you're connected via a school IP network, you can download literature for free.

2. IEEE

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp?reload=true

Here's the link to the Xplore Digital Library interface.

3. National Digital Library of China

http://www.nlc.gov.cn/

Mainly aggregates electronic book resources from local libraries.

4. Academic Website Directory

http://dir.cnki.net/

There are many sites offering free literature access; this directory lists such sites.

5. J-STAGE

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/

J-STAGE is an integrated information system for science and technology developed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency. It collects publications from various Japanese academic societies, mostly in English. Over 199 journals are available for free browsing.

6. PMC

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

This is a digital archive of life science journal literature established by NCBI in the US, now offering full text of over 50 biomedical journals for free.

7. OALib

http://www.oalib.com/

Open Access Library provides over 2 million academic articles with high-quality documents and fast servers. Much of its content overlaps with PMC.

Here are some of the most authoritative and comprehensive official data websites:

1. National Data

http://data.stats.gov.cn

Has everything.

Chapter 3: How to Reduce the Plagiarism Check Rate

Many assignments abroad are open-ended questions without standard correct answers. Chinese students accustomed to 'standard answers' may try to find answers in various ways. Little do they know that if your answer is identical to others', the instructor will assume you plagiarized someone else's work.

Normal citations and data references won't constitute plagiarism, but you must watch the quantity. If you cite too much, it can still be considered plagiarism. In that case, you need to paraphrase the cited content so it won't be deemed plagiarized.

Therefore, students studying abroad must learn to avoid plagiarism and academic dishonesty. Today, I recommend several commonly used plagiarism checkers at foreign universities. You can use these tools to check your assignments and papers to see if they contain plagiarism.

Plagiarism Check Websites:

1. Turnitin

http://www.turnitinuk.com/

Turnitin is the most widely used plagiarism detection system; most UK universities use it. Students can log into their school portal and upload their papers to the system for checking.

2. Plagspotter

http://www.plagspotter.com/

Not only can you check a single webpage, but you can also use their Batch Search feature to scan an entire website.

Even free users don't have to worry about limited search results. The service also includes daily automatic monitoring of your content and provides percentage data. The homepage has detailed explanations of the search query principles.

3. Grammarly

www.grammarly.com

A top-notch free online proofreading and plagiarism checking tool. It also has a browser extension that checks your grammar and spelling wherever you are, whether on Twitter, Facebook, or elsewhere.

4. PolishMyWriting

http://www.polishmywriting.com/

Just paste your written text or paragraph into the text box, and the system will automatically identify grammar and spelling errors. Spelling errors are highlighted in red, grammar errors in green, and, most importantly, PolishMyWriting thoughtfully provides writing suggestions in blue. Couldn't be more helpful!

Chapter 4: What to Do When Your Plagiarism Rate Is Too High

When completing your paper, try to make your first draft 2-4 thousand words longer than required, to facilitate later revisions and cuts.

Then, based on the plagiarism report:

Convert words/phrases flagged as red into synonyms or synonymous idioms
Flexibly convert between active and passive voice, and swap pronouns with the objects they refer to
Shuffle the order of parallel-type vocabulary and sentence patterns
Add tables and figures where appropriate; turn data and content that can be presented in tables into table form
Rewrite the content in your own words: expand, condense, or rephrase with a different expression

Chapter 5: How to Deal with the Frustration of Constant Revision Versions

Often, after your supervisor helps revise your thesis, you receive numerous different versions, leading to confusion.

For example, when writing a submission paper, during the collaboration with your supervisor, you may end up with countless versions stored, and it's easy to lose track among the email attachments. Sometimes, you even edit the wrong version, wasting your effort and delaying the publication process...

To rescue you from this dilemma, I strongly recommend a writing platform that allows multiple users to collaboratively write and edit papers: SciFlow

SciFlow allows all co-authors to collaborate on writing and editing a paper within one platform; no more back-and-forth emails and version chaos. Everyone can instantly find the desired references, figures, and equations.

SciFlow has many advantages:

Simple text editing
Can import references: you can directly add reference files from mainstream reference management software like Mendeley, Endnote, Citavi into SciFlow
All co-authors can conveniently edit the paper on one platform
Can add figures, tables, and equations online
Changes to the paper are instantly visible to all authors, eliminating the need for email communication and preventing multiple version confusion