Pierre pierre Bourdieu, a famous French sociologist, once said: "The concrete research without theory is blind, and the theory without concrete research is empty." This requires our graduate students to do a lot of academic reading, and reading is also a necessary way to generate graduate students' academic literacy. Without extensive reading, it is impossible to form one's own opinions, let alone put forward one's own unique theory, unless it is imaginary. For graduate students, extensive reading of academic works, periodicals and website articles is an important way to reserve knowledge, inspire thinking and acquire methodology. In the process of extensive reading, graduate students can not only gain knowledge and confidence, but also gain the subtle influence of thinking and methodology, which is indispensable for the formation of graduate students' academic literacy.
The academic ability and accomplishment of graduate students are reflected in their academic papers, especially their dissertations. The characteristics of academic papers are "theory": "argument", "argument" and "conclusion" Academic papers always discuss and answer a question, including how this question is raised, what kind of question it is, and what theoretical or practical significance it has to discuss and solve this problem. The question is the relationship between variables that affect the development and change of things, such as whether there is a relationship between a person's education level and his sense of social responsibility, what kind of relationship it is, and how high the correlation between them is. In addition, in what way did one or some problems in the research of the thesis exist in history? What research has been done by predecessors or contemporaries, and what important documents are worthy of attention and need to be sorted out. In order to understand these problems, reading academic works is essential.
We believe that graduate students should read more foreign academic works and academic articles on journals and magazines and professional websites. Due to the strict protection of intellectual property rights abroad, plagiarism rarely occurs in academic works, which is highly innovative. More importantly, foreigners' way of thinking and methodology are quite different from China's. By reading their academic achievements, graduate students can get some useful enlightenment and keep abreast of international academic trends.
2. Be diligent in writing papers, especially papers with small topics.
Thesis writing is an important way and fundamental purpose to cultivate, exercise and improve the academic ability of graduate students. Writing more academic papers can not only make graduate students discover new academic interests and occupy academic resources and materials, but also make them use this opportunity to reflect on their existing academic achievements, which is undoubtedly of great significance to their future academic research. Because of this, we advocate that graduate students should write more academic papers to lay a solid foundation for further study.
One thing to note about graduate students' thesis writing is that the topic should not be too grand, and it should not be a change of something, a summary of so-and-so thoughts and so on. Instead, we should start from small problems, dig deep, see the big picture from small ones and draw convincing conclusions. Because the academic experience, life experience and theoretical level of graduate students are still limited, it is suggested that it is best not to choose papers that are too theoretical, speculative and abstract. As a basic graduate student, the cultivation of academic ability is a very meticulous work, which can't be done overnight. It needs to start from small things and gradually form. For writing papers, it is the best choice to reflect big problems with small topics. In addition, the title of the paper should be carefully polished and summarized, so that people can see what the paper refers to at a glance.
3. Pay attention to the training of thinking mode and research method.
Method consciousness and methodology are the core elements of learning. The quality of methodology can directly determine the quality of an academic research, even the success or failure. Therefore, in the process of cultivating graduate students' academic ability, we must adhere to the study of methodology as the primary aspect. Lack of methodology or improper choice of methodology will have a negative impact on academic research.
The core of methodology is thinking mode and research method. Obviously, being limited to one method will only hinder the progress of research. Trying a variety of research methods, or combining a variety of research methods, will be of great benefit to academic research. This is especially important for the cultivation of graduate students' academic ability. Whether academic research can be innovative depends on whether the thinking mode and research method adopted in the research are helpful to the research. If our graduate students want to have higher academic research literacy and ability, then methodology learning is an unavoidable and important aspect. Extensive research methods in humanities, social sciences and natural sciences will benefit the academic research of graduate students.
In a word, the cultivation of graduate students' academic ability is a systematic and complicated long-term work, which requires both the tutor's practical attention in education and teaching and the graduate students' conscious exercise of their own ability in this respect. In fact, to be an excellent graduate student, the cultivation of one's own academic ability is an extremely critical factor to measure the academic accomplishment or quality of graduate students. Today, with the continuous enrollment expansion of graduate students, the problem of low academic ability of graduate students has been highlighted. This is an urgent and unavoidable major issue, and we should take it seriously and start as soon as possible to effectively improve the academic ability of graduate students.