For graduates, if they want to graduate successfully, they must write a thesis, so the writing of the thesis is particularly important. A good thesis is mainly reflected in the thesis topic and research methods and results, a good thesis topic can provide great convenience for the later thesis writing, when choosing and writing the thesis topic, you must meet the requirements of the thesis topic and format.
Thesis title format requirements
The thesis title is generally composed of a main title and a subtitle, and in most cases there is only one main title, including Chinese title and English title. The Chinese title of the thesis should summarize the most important content of the thesis, be concise and compelling, and generally should not exceed 20 words. The Chinese title should summarize the most important content of the thesis, be concise and compelling, and should not exceed 20 words. The English title of the thesis is based on the meaning of the Chinese title, according to English grammar, choose the right combination of English words, the fewer words the better, generally should not exceed 10 real words, the font TimesNewRoman two words, paragraph centered. The specific requirements of thesis title format are as follows:
Requirements for the Chinese title of the thesis:
The Chinese title of the thesis should reflect the author’s writing intention and the main idea of the article in all or different aspects. The title of the dissertation is generally divided into a general title and a subtitle.
(A) General title
The general title is a reflection of the overall content of the essay. Common ways to write it are
1) Reveal the essence of the topic.
This form of title, which highly summarizes the content of the whole article, is often the central thesis of the article. It has a high degree of clarity and makes it easy for the reader to grasp the core of the content. Topics such as these are numerous and common. For example, “On the Model of the Economic System”, “The Economic Center Theory”, “My View on the Reform of County Administrative Bodies”, etc.
2) Questioning style.
This type of question is used in the way of questioning, but the content to be answered is hidden, in fact, the author’s point of view is very clear, but the meaning of the euphemism, the reader needs to think about it. This form of title because of its implicit views, easy to stimulate the reader’s attention. For example, “The family contract system is a single job? The commodity economy is equivalent to the capitalist economy? etc.
3) to explain the scope of content.
This form of title, from its own point of view, can not see the author’s point of view, but only to limit the scope of the article content. On the one hand, it is difficult to summarize the main arguments of the essay in a short sentence; on the other hand, it gives an account of the scope of the content of the essay, so as to attract the attention of fellow readers and to arouse their resonance. This form of title is also more common. For example, “A Trial of the Two-tier Management System in China’s Rural Areas”, “Correctly Handling the Relationship between the Central and Local Authorities, and the Article and Block”, “An Analysis of Western Trade Liberalization after the War”, etc.
4) Use judgmental sentence style.
This form of title gives a limit to the content of the whole article, which can be extended or contracted with great flexibility. The object of study is specific and small in scope, but the ideas derived from it must be very general and wide in scope. This kind of topic from a small point of view, the big place to start, is conducive to scientific thinking and scientific research to expand. For example, “The Light of Hope in Rural China from the Rise of Township Enterprises”, “Scientific and Technological Progress and Agricultural Economy”, “The Essence of Beauty from “Labor Creates Beauty”, etc.
5) Use figurative statements.
For example, “The Inspiring Management System”, “The Dawn of Science and Technology”, “The Theory of Universal Light”, etc.
There are many other styles of titles, and authors can be bold and innovative in their practice.
(I) Subtitle
In order to point out the research object, research content, research purpose of the paper, the general topic to supplement, explain, some papers can also add subtitle. Especially some debatable papers, generally have a subtitle, such as in the general topic below, add “and × × debatable” and other subtopics.
In addition, in order to emphasize a certain focus of the paper, you can also add a subtitle. For example, “How to look at the difference of labor remuneration at the present stage – also talk about the bourgeois rights in the distribution of labor”, “Developing protein resources and improving protein utilization efficiency – discussing a development strategy to solve the food problem”, etc.
The requirements for the topic are summarized in three points: First, it should be clear. It should be able to reveal the scope of the topic or argument, so that people know the general outline of the article, the main content of the discussion and the author’s intention to write, rather than specious, hiding the head and tail, and the reader hide and seek. Secondly, the title of the paper should not be too long, too long is easy to make people feel tedious and cumbersome, not get a clear impression, thus affecting the overall evaluation of the article. The title can not be too abstract, empty, the title can not be used in a very useful or fabricated vocabulary, so as not to make the reader see the title like a fall into the sea of smoke, a hundred thoughts, to read the whole article to know the title of the claptrap. Three to novel. The title and the content of the article, the same form, should have their own unique. Do not be new, and not to fall into the case, so that it is fascinating, pleasing to the eye, so as to arouse the reader’s interest in reading.
(II)I Thesis English title requirements:
(a) The structure of the title. The English title is mainly in the form of a phrase, especially the noun phrase (nounphrase) is the most common, that is, the title basically consists of one or several nouns plus their preposition and (or) postposition. For example, DiscussionAbouttheEnvyofChildrenantheAged, PrinciplestoFollowinEnrollingTalentsinHigherEducationInstitutions. (Principles to FollowinEnrollingTalentsinHigherEducationInstitutions). Phrase-based questions should identify the central word and then modify it before and after. The order of the words is important, and improper word order can lead to inaccurate expressions. In general, the topic should not be a declarative sentence, because the topic mainly serves as a marker, and declarative sentences tend to make the topic have a judgmental semantics; moreover, declarative sentences are not concise and eye-catching enough, and the focus is not easy to highlight. In a few cases (review, synthesis and refutation), a question can be used as the title because it can have an exploratory tone and is easy to interest the reader.
For example:
Can Agricultural Mechanization be Realized Without Petroleum? .
(a) The number of words in the title.
The title should not be too long. The general principle is that the title should be precise, concise and eye-catching, and the number of words in the title should not exceed 10 words, provided that it accurately reflects the specific content of the paper. Experts recommend not to exceed 15 words, according to the characteristics of human memory, it is best not to exceed 12 words, otherwise it is not easy to remember, the maximum is generally not more than 20 words.
(b) The consistency of the Chinese and English titles.
The same paper, the English title and the Chinese title should be consistent in content, but it is not the same as saying that the words should correspond to each other. In many cases, individual non-substantive words can be omitted or changed.
(c) Case in the title.
The letters of the title have the following three formats of case. a. All letters are capitalized. For example: DISCUSSIONABOUTTHEENVYOFCHIDRENANDTHEAGED.B. The first letter of each word is capitalized, but the three or less letters of the coronary, conjunctions, prepositions are all lowercase. For example: From “Go-back-to-history “toNon-history–ACriticismofNewHistoricism.C. Capitalize the first letter of the first word of the title, and lowercase the rest of the letters.
For example:
Topographicinversionofintervalvelocities.B. format is generally used.
