Term Paper Guidelines & Checklist Pre-Modern Chinese Literature , Spring 2015 1. Title (which is specific enough to indicate your particular focus/approach, rather than something as general as “ Confucianism in Chinese Literature ,” or “ Chinese Historical Fiction ,” etc. A much better example will be “ Narrating ‘ History ’ : From The Historical Records to Romance of the Three Kingdoms ” or “ Taoist Transcendentalism in the Lisao ” 论文题目 (不要过于宽泛,比如 “ 中国文学中的儒家思想 ” 或者 “ 中国 历史小说 ” ;建议使用类似 《叙述“历史”:从 < 史记 > 到 < 三国演义 > 》 或者 “ 论 《 离骚 》中的 道家超脱思想 ) ” 这样的题目) ; 2. Thesis Statement (your own argument, not simply a summary of background information) 总论点 (你自己的观点,不能只是对于背景介绍的一个简单总结) ; 3. In your discussion, you should include textual analysis of 1-3 pieces from the literary texts in our course materials (you can discuss films, but at least one literary text has to be examined) 论文应当包括 对于我们讨论过的 文学作品 所做的具体的文本分析,建议选一到三篇 / 部, 不要太多 (可以讨论电影,但是另外需要讨论至少一部文学作品) 4. Sub-Thesis Statements for every major section/paragraph of the paper 每个主要段落 / 部分要有自己的 分 论点 ; 5. Conclusion 结论 ; 6. Bibliography (1-3 literary and/or film texts plus at least one scholarly publication, which can, but does not have to be, chosen from the required or recommended readings in the syllabus) 参考书目 ,至少需要包括一篇 / 本学术性文献,可以从 syllabus 中推荐的学术文章中选取,也可以从其他学术期刊或者书籍中选取,但 是不可以是一般性网络文章。 .