Can not doing what one wants be called rebirth?

Chapter 203 201. Some details on writing a paper

"What I'm talking about today is actually the content of the course 'Law Paper Writing' that I taught in the second semester of my junior year."

"This course is taught four times in total. I prepared a simplified version when I was preparing for the course. Today I will talk to you about the third of these four lectures, the specific steps of writing a legal paper."

An empty classroom in the law school building.

The two men and one woman in the research group took notes seriously and received special training from Professor Li Suying.

"Last time we talked about the framework of the paper and also made preliminary assignments."

Li Suying is really professional.

She dissected the paper like a butcher cutting up an ox, and every word and sentence hit the point, giving several freshmen a feeling of enlightenment.

"Everyone, please note that no matter what, you must force yourself to divide the framework at the beginning of writing and list the first, second, third, and fourth points of the paper."

"In this way, when we read and sort out the materials later, we can further connect the materials with the framework."

"For example, after the preliminary arrangement of the paper structure, the paper has a preliminary title, a rough outline, and a rough level division. The literature has also been read and sorted out."

"Just now I saw that Guan Yongyi would print out the documents and color them with different colors with fluorescent pens. Facing the red and green, he felt that everything was ready."

Li Suying pointed at the short-haired girl under the podium, turned around and wrote four words on the whiteboard.

"So, how do we start to enrich the paper materials after this? Now we can do the first task, which is to compare the materials."

This was useful information. Not only Luo Yongfei, but even Lu Jincheng, who was playing as a support, pricked up his ears to listen.

“The work of parallelizing materials can be divided into two steps.

The first step is the accumulation in the process of literature sorting, that is, excerpting materials.

As we just mentioned, this feeling often arises when reading papers and materials related to intellectual property.

This part of the article is useful, and I can quote this sentence!
But if you finish reading this reference book and just throw it away, when you come back to start writing, you won’t be able to find the content in the book when you look for it again.

At this time, it is necessary to do the basic work of marking and even excerpting.

When parallelizing materials, first enter the materials that may be quoted and referenced into the computer.

If it is necessary to quote directly, just copy it down. Points of view for reference can be summarized in one or two sentences and recorded.

If we do this kind of accumulation and recording work one article at a time during the literature sorting process, by the time we finish sorting, you may have a document of tens of thousands of words.

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

Your initial ideas, general framework, and even specific writing strategies are all formed in this process. This document is both the result of your sorting out and a record of your thinking. "

Li Suying wrote the second step on the whiteboard.

“The second step is to put it into a framework.

For example, if the research team has sorted out 30 papers and 10 books, they can start to compare the preliminary first-level headings and fill the sorted literature into the general framework of the paper.

After determining the framework, and reviewing the previously sorted materials, everyone can begin to think about the relationship between the literature materials and the various parts of the paper, and in which part this paragraph can be used.

In this way, the documents and materials that you have read before can be classified under each first-level heading.

In other words, various materials, information and viewpoints have begun to be integrated into everyone's own analysis framework.

If you organize it in this way, the paper may already have tens of thousands of words before you even start writing it.

The greatest significance of doing this is that the paper is already in progress.

There is a framework for thinking, and there is material to go with it.”

As she was speaking, Li Suying took out three papers from her bag and handed them to three students in the audience.

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth.

Everyone compared the ideas on the whiteboard with the mature paper structure, and their understanding deepened a lot.

Li Suying drew a mind map on the whiteboard based on her thesis and began to share her thoughts.

"Take this paper I published in the journal as an example. I showed you the complete process of organizing my thoughts. I excerpted the books and literature I read for this article and put it into the framework.

You can imagine that after I complete the initial framework of the paper, it will be a fairly long document that contains my framework and excerpted materials.

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

When I am writing, I will open another document and keep the original document because it helps me think about and organize the materials.

What do you think it means to complete such a task?
At this point, I may have read dozens of documents and gone through a preliminary digestion. When such a document containing a large amount of information is completed, it means that I have the basic materials for my thesis.

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

It is said that he had the habit of putting good words and sentences that he came up with on the spur of the moment in a small cloth bag. He even thought about the usage of various allusions in advance, and put all these things on the desk when he wrote.

So others laughed at him and said, "This is called 'Otter Festival', what does it mean?"

Before an otter eats fish, it must catch all the fish, place them one by one on the shore, and then start eating.

This way of writing is like an otter eating fish.

In short, everyone should pay attention to the difference between academic writing and literary writing.

Literary writing is often based on inspiration and talent.

The writing training we receive since childhood is often genius-style writing.

You are given a topic and are required to finish it in one go, without any punctuation, and write thousands of words.

This is what we feel is the best writing, but it is not academic writing.

Of course, there are actually differences in literary writing. There are those who are purely inspired by genius, and there are also those who write poems with great effort like Jia Dao.

It is said that when reciting a word, one must break off several strands of beard and ponder it over and over again. "

Before I knew it, more than an hour had passed.

"That's all I have to say today. Next time we meet, I want to see how everyone has organized their resources."

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

"Hey, Guan Yongyi"

As soon as the professor left, Luo Yongfei immediately turned his head and asked the girl with interest.

"When I went to CNKI to look for intellectual property literature, I couldn't find anything. How did you find it?"

"What keywords did you use? There's probably something wrong with your design."

Guan Yongyi wrote furiously, lowered his head to organize the notes on the whiteboard, and answered casually.

"If you write a long sentence and search it, of course you won't find anything."

"How do you know? You are so awesome!"

Luo Yongfei pretended to have suddenly realized something, squinted his eyes and forced a smile.

"Let's have a meal together as a research group. I have a lot of questions I want to ask you."

"Don't eat."

Guan Yongyi put down his pen, raised his eyes and looked at Luo Yongfei with his usual cold expression.

"I have to accompany my boyfriend later, and it's not appropriate to have a light bulb around me."

After saying that, she smiled, as if a spring breeze was blowing on her face, and took Lu Jincheng's arm.

"Bye, see you later~"

I’m stuck. It’s so painful.

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(End of this chapter)