Boss Lu: A reborn life is destined to be without regrets!-Chapter 270 - 201. Details of Writing a Thesis

"What I’m talking about today is actually the content of a course I taught during the second semester of my junior year, "Legal Paper Writing."

"This course consisted of four lectures. When preparing for it, I created a simplified version, and what I’m going to share with you today is the third lecture from that series, which details the practical operation of writing a legal paper."

In an empty classroom in the Law School building, a research group formed by two men and a woman took notes diligently, soaking in Professor Li Suying’s exclusive guidance.

"Last time, we discussed the framework of the paper and preliminary task allocation."

Li Suying was truly professional.

She dissected the paper with surgical precision, making every word count, which enlightened the first-year students with profound insights.

"Pay attention, everyone: no matter what, at the beginning of your writing, you must forcibly outline your framework, listing the first, second, third, and fourth points of your paper."

"By doing this, as we proceed to read and organize materials, we can further align those materials with the framework."

"For instance, after tentatively setting up the structure of the paper, it would have a preliminary title, a rough outline, layers vaguely divided, and literature read and sorted."

"I just noticed that Guan Yongyi even prints out the literature and highlights it with various colors of markers. Facing a spread of red and green, one feels completely prepared."

Li Suying pointed at the short-haired girl sitting below the podium and then turned to write four characters on the whiteboard.

"So, how do we proceed to enrich the material of the paper after this? At this point, we can start our first task, which is to arrange comparative materials."

This was essential knowledge, and not just Luo Yongfei but also Lu Jincheng, who was there to assist, listened attentively.

"Arranging comparative materials can be divided into two steps.

The first step is the accumulation during the process of literature sorting, which is extracting the material.

As you all mentioned, when reading through intellectual property-related papers, you often have this feeling,

This part of the article is useful, I can quote this sentence!

However, if you finish reading this reference book and toss it aside, when you come back to write, you’ll find it difficult to locate the necessary information.

At that time, it becomes essential to do basic work such as marking or even extracting.

When arranging the materials, first enter any material that might be cited or referenced into the computer.

Directly quote what is necessary and condense any viewpoints that could be referenced into one or two recorded sentences.

If we accumulate and record this way, article by article, during the sorting process, by the end, we might have a document of tens of thousands of words.

In fact, the process of extracting materials is also the process of conceptualizing the paper.

Your preliminary views, general framework, and even specific writing strategies are formed in this process. This document is not only the outcome of sorting but also a record of your thinking."

Li Suying then wrote the second step on the whiteboard.

"The second step is to integrate into the framework.

For example, if the research group has already sorted through 30 papers and 10 books, we can start aligning the reviewed literature with the preliminary main headings of the paper’s broad structure.

After establishing the framework, you can revisit the previously sorted materials and consider the relationship between the literature and each part of the paper, and where in which section a particular passage can be utilized.

In this way, the previously reviewed literature and materials can be assigned under the relevant main headings.

That is to say, various materials, data, and viewpoints begin to merge into your analytical framework.

Organizing according to this method, perhaps even before we have started writing, can already lead to tens of thousands of words.

And the main significance of doing so is that the paper is already progressing.

You have a thinking framework, as well as the corresponding materials."

As she spoke, Li Suying took out three papers from her bag and handed them to the three students below.

Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.

While referring to the ideas on the whiteboard, they examined the structure of mature papers, and their understanding deepened significantly.

Li Suying, combining her own paper, drew a mind map on the whiteboard and began to share her insights. freewebnσvel.cѳm

"Just take this paper I published in a journal, for example, I showed everyone the complete process of organizing my thoughts.

I compiled the books and literature I read for writing this article into excerpts and integrated them into the framework.

You can imagine that after I completed the initial framework of my paper, I would have a document of considerable length containing my framework and the excerpted material.

This is actually the first step in writing all my papers.

When I write specifically, I open a new document and keep this original document, because it helps me think through and organize this material.

Think about what completing such a task implies.

By that time, I might have looked through dozens of pieces of material and gone through a preliminary digestion, and when such a document containing lots of material is finished, it means that I have all the basic material for my paper.

This style of writing is usually looked down upon in the tradition of Chinese literature, but it’s said that Li Shangyin wrote this way.

It’s said that he was in the habit of putting those spontaneously thought-out good words and phrases into a small cloth bag, and even planning the uses of various allusions in advance, to spread them all out on his desk when it came time to write.

So others mocked him, saying, ’You’re like ’the otter offering sacrifices.’ What does that mean?

Before an otter eats fish, it catches all the fish, lines them up on the shore, and then starts to eat.

Such a way of writing is like an otter eating fish.

In short, everyone should note the differences between academic writing and literary writing.

Literary writing is often based on inspiration and talent.

The writing training we’ve experienced from a young age is often like that of a genius.

Give you a topic, requiring ’to be ready on horseback,’ to be done in one stroke, without adding a dot to the text, writing thousands of words at the drop of a pen.

We think that’s the best way to write, but that’s not academic writing.

Of course, literary writing also has distinctions, with purely inspired and talented types, as well as the ’painstaking poets’ like Jia Dao.

The so-called pondering over a single word, breaking several stalks of beard in thought, calls for repeated refinement."

Before she realized it, over an hour had quietly passed.

"So, that’s all for today. Next time we meet, I want to see how everyone has organized their resources."

Li Suying arranged the next phase of the division of labor and tasks, had a sip of tea, and left the classroom on her own.

"Ei, Guan Yongyi..."

Once the professor left, Luo Yongfei immediately turned around and excitedly started talking to the girl.

"When I went to CNKI to search for intellectual property literature, I couldn’t find anything at all, how did you find it?"

"What keywords did you use? There might be a problem with that."

Guan Yongyi was furiously scribbling, her head down as she organized the notes on the whiteboard, and she casually replied.

"If you put a long sentence into the search, of course, you won’t find anything."

"How did you know? You’re amazing!"

Luo Yongfei made a face as if he had just realized something, squinting his eyes and squeezed out a slight smile.

"How about our research group goes out for a meal? I still have a lot of questions I want to ask you guys."

"No, thanks."

Guan Yongyi put down her pen, lifted her eyes to look at Luo Yongfei, sporting her usual icy expression.

"I have to meet my boyfriend later, it’s not suitable to have a third wheel around."

With that, she smiled a smile as warm as the spring breeze and hooked her arm into Lu Jincheng’s.

"Bye bye, see you~"

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