Chapter 806: Graduation thesis, grab people
Chapter 806: Graduation thesis, robbing people
If he only wrote an article about the political commentary of Empress Yuan Zhao, Jiang Lingxi could write tens of thousands of words without any stumbling from beginning to end.
But the paper is different.
Any argument must be well-founded and have corresponding sources!
Otherwise, where did your arguments come from? The most taboo thing about a paper is fabricating it out of thin air.
Even with Shen Yunqing’s help in sorting out relevant historical materials, such a paper took her nearly a month.
Of course, the results are also very significant. The entire paper is nearly one hundred pages long, and the number of words almost exceeds the limit. The references attached at the end alone are two and a half pages long.
After compressing and sending the paper to Professor Zhou's mailbox, Jiang Lingxi finally breathed a sigh of relief. After receiving the student's email, Professor Zhou stayed up all night after opening the paper.
When Jiang Lingxi received a call from him the next morning and rushed to the office, she saw Professor Zhou with red bloodshot eyes and a hoarse voice.
"Student Jiang, sit down. I have read your paper overnight." Professor Zhou held the warm paper version of the paper that he had just printed out, his fingers trembling with excitement. "But there are many parts that I want to follow in person." Let’s discuss it, so I specially called you here.”
“By the way, I also asked some professors from the history department to discuss it together. You have a drink of water first, and you should be able to answer a lot of questions later. When everyone is here, we will go to the conference room next door.”
Jiang Lingxi was mentally prepared for Professor Zhou's reaction, but she didn't expect him to be so impatient. Hearing the words, he nodded calmly and obediently took a disposable water cup to get the water.
Halfway through drinking, the professors who were summoned hurried to the office.
“I heard that you received a paper that you are not sure about part of the argument. Show it to me quickly.”
“Which of your graduate students wrote it?”
“It’s rare to find a paper that even you, Old Zhou, can’t be sure about after reading it. I’ll see you soon, haha!”
Jiang Lingxi has also met these professors who came here, and she has also taken their classes.
It’s just that I didn’t expect to be so lively in private.
“Ahem, shut up now. Let me introduce you to the author of this paper, Mr. Jiang. Come on.”
Jiang Lingxi put down her cup and walked over, greeting several professors in turn.
“I have an impression of this classmate. Have you attended my class?”
“I remember you are only in your sophomore year, right? Are you starting to write your thesis now?”
“Jiang has completed all the credits for her professional courses. She only needs to wait until she passes the thesis defense to get her diploma.”
"Not bad."
“Let’s go, let’s go to the conference room and discuss it later.”
This discussion lasted most of the day.
Fortunately, Professor Zhou marked out the main outlines of the paper in advance, saving everyone the time of reading it from beginning to end.
What Jiang Lingxi had to do at the scene was to get the experts in the history department in front of him to agree and accept his arguments.
There are even some overturning arguments.
The heated discussion in the conference room basically never stopped, and it could even be regarded as a private thesis defense.
No, this is more intense than a thesis defense.
Several professors are quite old, with an average age of around fifty.
But although their bodies are tired now, their spirits are very high.
After all, they gained quite a lot from this discussion. The study of history is to deduce the policies and ideas of predecessors based on existing historical data.
However, even the so-called historians like them cannot guarantee that their research on the predecessors is completely correct.
Sometimes your research results on existing data have won the approval of most people, but the discovery of a new historical data may overturn all your previous conclusions.
Furthermore, there are always many contradictions arising in historical research. Thousands of people have different views, and different people may have vastly different understandings of historical materials. Especially in terms of policy ideas.
Some people think the same idea is good, while others think it is bad.
The father-in-law says that the public is right, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is right. The quarrel can be so loud that it makes people’s heads ache.
This is also the reason why Professor Zhou was worried about Jiang Lingxi’s thesis topic selection.
An emperor's political commentary basically represents his ruling thoughts. I don't know how many people have studied this point from ancient times to the present. Not only is it wide in scope, but there are also many mature conclusions. He is really worried that students will not be able to eat. Come down.
Wouldn’t it be a waste of effort if we end up writing just four different images?
Until last night he received an email from Jiang Lingxi.
The structure is clear, the whip is inserted into the inside, and the words must be correct.
Let him support this old bone and he would see the dawn from night to day without knowing it, and stay up all night.
After finally reading it, I didn’t even bother to go back and catch up on some sleep, so I couldn’t wait to summon the author of the paper and a few old friends over.
In fact, some of the conclusions in this paper are too subversive, and even deny the conclusions that many historians have already formed.
It happened that there was something in his words. While he was shocked by what he saw, he was not sure who to believe.
The only way to do this is to find the author of this paper and ask him more deeply in person, and then discuss it with a few friends.
Jiang Lingxi cannot disappoint them.
Answer all questions, clear opinions and solid evidence!
Just this question and answer, and occasional discussion, made them ignore the passage of time.
Until the end, I had nothing to ask. After a long period of brainstorming, I just felt dizzy and looked sideways at the student in front of me.
I have to look at it sideways!
Had it not been confirmed that this paper was written by a sophomore like Jiang Lingxi, if I told them that it was written by a certain historical scholar, they probably wouldn't doubt it.
Seeing that Jiang Lingxi's defense was over, she consciously turned off the computer. Professor Guo, who was sitting opposite Professor Zhou, took a drink of water to soothe his dry throat and suddenly said, "Student Jiang, you will graduate from your bachelor's degree soon. Do you want to continue?" Are you interested in studying for my graduate degree?”
Professor Zhou was squinting and rubbing his temples. The amount of information brought by this defense was too great, and he was still awake all night. Now he could finally relax, and his temples felt tingling.
But as soon as he heard this, he quickly opened his eyes and stared at him, "Lao Guo, you have the nerve to rob me in front of me!"
“Why am I so embarrassed? I am asking this question openly and honestly. Student Jiang is a good candidate and her paper is well-written. Isn’t it normal for me to want to take her under my wing?”
“I am her thesis advisor. She wants to go to graduate school, so she shouldn’t choose me first. It’s not your turn!”
Jiang Lingxi closed the computer and looked up, "I..."
She swallowed the words "I've never thought about going to graduate school" after meeting the burning eyes in front of her.
“We have been discussing this for so long, would you like the professors to go back and take a rest first?”
Is it okay to go to graduate school or something and talk about it later?