This article is from WeChat official account:Vista sees the world (ID: vistaweek) , author: Feng Meili, title picture from: unsplash
February 8, 2019 was an ordinary day.
The famous Kochi Dr. Zhai Tianlin in the entertainment circle at the time was broadcasting live.
Unexpectedly, a sentence in the live broadcast, “What is HowNet?” revealed the secret that his academic qualifications have been flooded.
This led to an ongoing rectification of academic circles, which is known as the first year of the day.
Finally, this year is already three years in the sky.
For more than two years, the size of the “Zhai Tianlin” Victims Alliance has continued to expand with the increase in the number of graduates. Today, the number of members has exceeded the total population of Australia.
“Zhai Tianlin, are you asleep?”
This sentence has become a sincere “blessing” that thousands of graduates will come to their hearts every year when they cross the catastrophe.
No one would scold Zhai Tianlin every year, but someone would scold Zhai Tianlin every year.
Whether you graduated from undergraduate, graduate or doctoral degree, as long as you scold Zhai Tianlin online together, everyone is half-father and half-mother relatives and comrades.
In a sense, these three words have become an Internet wailing wall for contemporary graduates.
They relieved the pressure of graduation represented by thesis in the fragrance of their mouths, thus forming a set of social rituals that lasted for years.
Now it’s the graduation season again, and it’s the season when academic garbage is produced vigorously every year.
The college students who live a three-point line life of “eat and sleep scolding Zhai Tianlin” can’t restrain their inner restlessness. Every day they fight on Dr. Zhai’s Weibo comment area.
Perhaps because the blessings of netizens were too noisy. Two years after the incident, Zhai Tianlin came out and responded positively to the scolding on himself for the first time.
I also urged everyone to “civilized catharsis, and work harder after catharsis”.
It’s impossible to get rid of your breath.
College students who are in the quagmire of heavy investigation do not eat this set, and they still have to scold.
Some netizens said that Zhai Tianlin’s only way to clean up now is to build one at his own expense.”Tianlin Foundation” will reimburse everyone for the cost of heavy checking.
No wonder the graduates are so angry.
Since Dr. Zhai did not know HowNet in the first year of Tianlin, many colleges and universities have lowered the standard of duplicate investigation.
Some people think that their school’s 5% duplicate check rate is already at the limit. Unexpectedly, when the Zhai Tianlin incident happened, this standard was abruptly dropped to 3%.
In the past, the biggest weakness of contemporary college students in front of thesis is procrastination.
“Graduation thesis in two weeks” and “30,000 words in 7 days” is a race against time and sleep.
So now, the real nightmare has become a duplicate check.
This is the real slaughter.
Whether you are a talented academic tailor or a diligent migrant worker, in front of CNKI, you can only obediently wait for your fate to come.
Judging from the feedback of the students, the standard for checking the duplicates of the paper is quite strange.
Quoting celebrity quotes will be judged as plagiarism. Not to mention, proper nouns and even the names of mentors are marked as plagiarism by the system.
The most aggrieved non-liberal arts students are none other than the most aggrieved.
Students who study the law dare not cite laws and regulations, and those who study literature dare not cite poems and golden sentences arbitrarily…
If you learn about history and retell a few lines of modern history and contemporary history, the interface for checking duplicates is very popular.
But the situation of science and engineering students is also not much better.
Academic terms, data, and calculation formulas cannot escape the fate of being uncovered.
However, what makes academic junk even more confusing is that the system’s criteria for judging coincidence seem to be extraordinarily arbitrary for some reason.
Some people went through troubled waters and took advantage of the part of the “learning” part of the safety pass, but the conscience found that the honestly typed paragraphs were warned of plagiarism.
Or, it is obviously a paper on the direction of finance, but it is judged that it overlaps too much with the industrial design of others.
In the face of the duplication check system, the graduates have no dignity at all.
Although there is no relevant standard for the repetition rate of graduation thesis in China at this stage, a recognized fact is:
In the initial review stage of a dissertation, the repetition rate is almost the only criterion.
If the final check is not passed, it basically means that graduation will be postponed.
In a rule of law, Zhai Tianlin’s Weibo complaint, some netizens said that in 2019 (the first year of Tianlin), their school checked The rate standard plummeted.
A friend of hers was busy with the civil service examination and was unwilling to deal with the essay. After passing the examination, he was unable to enter the job because of postponement.
As a result, the majority of young people who are struggling with graduation treat the repetition rate more seriously than the content of the paper.
In order to reduce the weight, the graduates have exhausted the literary skills they have learned in elementary school Chinese classes all their lives.
Delete directly is the most naive approach.
After all, in addition to the coincidence rate, the paper also requires the number of words, so raising the soup to stop boiling can only be an emergency, it cannot solve the fundamental problem.
Beginner players are often addicted to expansion.
Expand “thank you” to “thank you, you are a good person”, and change “hello” to very “hello, happy to meet you”.
Modify one or two sentences in each paragraph, and complete the quantitative change to the qualitative change throughout the article.
However, the master of real expansion depends on Mr. Lu Xun:
First draft: There are two jujube trees in front of my house.
Final draft: There are two jujube trees in front of my house, one is a jujube tree and the other is a jujube tree.
It’s like the paper before the deadline, citing and eloquently producing shit and unreasonable articles.
This is not enough.
After all, even technical terms can’t escape being judged as duplicates.
Only those who have learnt “synonym substitution” can become unsurprised in the face of an 80% coincidence rate.
The top-level fooling study materials are available.
As soon as my thoughts are opened, the painting style of the masters of weight reduction is like a wild horse that runs out of the way, very wild.
All kinds of “strange skills and tricks” are beginning to appear.
We used to despise the bluntness of machine translation, but we never thought that the weight reduction now depends on it to save lives.
Chinese with a high repetition rate can be translated into English first and then translated back. If it still can’t be saved, try every language of Japan, Korea, France, Italy, and Germany. If you don’t believe it, you can’t create a new literature that is rigid and creative.
Some people directly converted part of the quoted content into pictures, and unilaterally announced that they would give up struggling with the text.
After a set of methods, I feel that I am not writing a paper at all, but patching new clothes.
A piece of clothing that is originally good can only be listed if it has to be repaired and tossed beyond recognition.
Then the question is here:
If the words and sentences in a paper are gradually replaced in the repeated check, until all the original sentences are no longer the original sentences, is the paper still the original paper?
I would call it “Thesis of Theseus.”
The graduates who have been investigated and driven mad are all embarrassed to say that they are a thesis tailor.
A tailor is a human being at any rate, but now a college student is simply a weightless machine without emotion.
However, this is also helpless after all.
If the check rate is not enough, it means that you can’t graduate on time.
For some people, duplicate checking is like shedding a layer on a paper. No matter what you wrote at the beginning, it will eventually be changed beyond recognition.
In the graduation season, a few busy college students, especially undergraduates, sometimes inevitably choose to fool around with seemingly less important papers during their busy schedule.
Some experts have said before that the requirement of duplicate checking rate in the paper is actually to guard against the gentleman but against the villain.
The great gods who are fascinated by academics and GPA3.9 need not worry, this group of people did not even need the urging of their mentors to produce an excellent paper with a novel perspective and smooth logic;
Those who give up treatment completely and only want to get a diploma are not in a hurry, anyway, they only need to “flick and move”, then they will naturally have a way to pass the test;
The most unlucky thing is only the majority of ordinary people caught in the middle.
Usually playing with mobile phones in professional classes makes a short run, and my temperament has long been cultivated slowly.
The ability to write a high-level thesis is insufficient, but I dare not fool around like a scumbag.
This is probably understandable, why most people are so unacceptable to the increase in the standard for checking papers caused by Zhai Tianlin.
Checking duplicates is a double blow to the spirit and wallet of graduates.
Generally speaking, there are only two free double-checking opportunities provided by the school on HowNet.
Those who find out 30% and 40% of the unlucky ones for the first time have to pay out of their own pockets and then identify a few times after the weight reduction is finished.
Use third-party paper databases such as Wanfang and PaperPass to check duplicates. Although it is cheaper, because they do not completely overlap with CNKI’s paper databases, duplicate check rates may differ.
Some netizens have encountered a 30% difference in the duplicate check rate of the same paper on two websites.
The huge gap makes it hard to feel relieved.
As the HowNet duplicate check system is currently not open to individuals, if you want to purchase how many duplicate checks are made, you can only use a third party such as a certain treasure.
The accuracy is guaranteed, but it is another major test for everyone’s wallets.
Before the Zhai Tianlin incident, the average price of a treasure in the last CNKI review was only about 100 to 200 yuan.
After the first year of Tianlin, the price soared to 400-500 yuan.
As the graduation season approaches and the demand for duplication checks increases, this price will also show a cyclical upward trend.
The highest can even reach thousands.
Just open a shop that sells the number of duplicate checks on a certain treasure. Behind the 1000+ sales volume, every graduate is full of anxiety that there is nowhere to put the duplicate check.
“Spending money to buy peace of mind” is helpless, but what is even more tiring is that you can’t buy peace of mind even after spending money.
On various platforms, many businesses that provide duplicate checking services will also support paid weight reduction at the same time.
For example, I randomly selected a store on a certain treasure that can help reduce weight, and the other party said that the charge is based on the number of repeated words, 70 yuan for liberal arts and 90 yuan for science.
According to this fee standard, a liberal arts paper with a repetition rate of about 10,000 words and a repetition rate of 40% will cost at least 360 yuan for a weight reduction.
The fees are not cheap, making college students who are not already wealthy even more impoverished.
I look forward to the other side’s wonderful hands, but often just disguise a pile of garbage into another shape of garbage.
Technical terminology has been modified into primary school students’ work, and word order and grammar have also been ruined more bluntly than machine translation.
After a meal, the operation was as fierce as a tiger, and when I took a closer look, the duplicate check rate was a bit higher than before.
Probably only after I have truly and completely experienced this set of torture, I will find that the diploma in my hand is so heavy.
Of course, after this disaster, the self-recognition of this year’s college students will rise to a higher level.
In 2016, “China Youth Daily” conducted a survey on graduation thesis.
The survey shows that 50.7% of respondents believe that undergraduate theses can no longer reflect the value of existence.
Not many college students believe that they can write anything valuable at the undergraduate level.
The academic rubbish created will be fine without adding obstacles to experts and tutors.
The most, the most, that is, the whole work in the thank you, thank you for passing through this graduation season with many arms and legs.
But now with Zhai Tianlin, graduates finally don’t have to vent their anxiety with their hair.
For every person trapped in the quagmire of heavy investigation, scolding him from time to time has become a subconscious art of decompression.
Anytime, as long as you think of him, think of your messy graduation thesis, you can find a universal humanoid punching bag this graduation season.
You will find that you are never fighting alone.
This article is from WeChat official account:Vista sees the world (ID: vistaweek), author: Feng Meili