Chapter 1 Introduction
College or university students of English in China are required bythe State Program of English Education to produce a thesis as partialfulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts inEnglish.This is usually done in their senior year.The purpose ofwriting a thesis is to demonstrate both the studentscomprehensiveability of using their target language for academic purposes and theirpractical competence of conducting research on the elementary level.These two points are inseparably related in the said case becausemastery of the target language is the essential task for a student of flforeign language.while command of the basic research skills in thestudents special field is an important part of the ultimate aim of ourcollege education.
The word thesis refers to a relatively long paper written on thebasis of some academic research and for the purpose of obtaining acollege or university degree.In other words,it is a degree-orientedresearch paper.That is why the B.A.thesis is sometimes called thesenior research paper.
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