Choose your own topic and do it yourself
When choosing a topic, you need to follow these principles: scientificity, innovation, feasibility and application. There are also various channels and ways to choose the topic, generally speaking, there are the following:
(1) Choosing the topic from the problems faced by social production and real life
People encounter a wide range of problems in real life, and the content available for choosing the topic is very wide. It is a very common means to choose a topic from the realistic needs. For example, in medical treatment, all kinds of diseases that seriously endanger human health, such as AIDS and cancer, are ready-made and popular topics. The needs of controlling environmental pollution, preventing wind and sand, etc., which are related to the national economy and people's livelihood, are all put forward from social production and practice, and they are all topics that can have far-reaching social impact.
(2) Selecting topics from scientific research planning and bidding topics
The key topics and annual topics regularly published by national, provincial and municipal scientific research management departments at all levels are important sources of scientific research topics. It is relatively easy to choose a topic that is related to your own research direction and is of interest when the general direction has been basically determined. The Ministry of Science and Technology issues the Project Guide for bidding every year. The main categories of various projects are: < P > General projects: these projects cover a wide range and account for most of the funded projects. These include free application projects, youth science fund projects, high-tech projects and new concepts, and new concept exploration projects. The Youth Science Fund encourages young people under the age of 35 who have a higher degree or strong scientific research ability to apply for projects, which is very useful for young researchers.
key projects: refer to the projects that are at the forefront of the discipline and may have a breakthrough and are of great significance, and this project is heavily funded.
major projects: refer to projects with great theoretical and application significance, clear objectives and solid foundation, which are expected to achieve significant results in the near future.
major research plan: integrate different academic backgrounds and ideas, form a project group with a unified goal, improve China's basic research through relatively long-term funding, and at the same time improve the independent innovation ability in research directions with important scientific significance.
(3) Selecting topics from scientific frontiers and research hotspots
Academic papers should first be based on innovation, and to be innovative, topics should be selected from the frontiers of scientific research. Therefore, we should pay attention to the frontiers, hotspots and trends of scientific research in peacetime. Master the research status, difficulties and research methods of the same or similar topics as your own, and be aware of them. On this basis, combined with my own practice, I comprehensively analyze the information, find a new breakthrough point, and determine my own topic selection direction. In the early stage of academic career, especially in the postgraduate and doctoral stages, there is relatively more spare time, so it is even more necessary to cultivate this ability, read more documents and participate in academic exchanges, and broaden the knowledge of related research fields.
on the basis of reading a lot of literature, you can also try to find blank spots according to your own specialties and the development trend of related research directions. This kind of subject often has good innovation and strong vitality, even if it can only make a little achievement and fill the gaps in professional fields at home and abroad, it is of great significance.
(4) Selecting topics from the extension of existing topics
Extensible topics can dig out new topics from their breadth and depth according to the scope and level of completed topics. In fact, this kind of subject accounts for a large proportion, because in the process of research, new problems will always be discovered and solved. Some of these problems have strong universality, which will become the content of the next topic.
At the same time, in the experimental research and clinical observation research, each subject is composed of three elements: the tested factors, the tested objects and the effect indicators. According to the research purpose, consciously changing one of the three elements of the original subject can constitute a new subject if it is found to have theoretical significance and application value.
(5) Selecting topics from the infiltration and cross-development of disciplines
At present, the trend of scientific development is the cross-penetration of disciplines. Not only does natural science intersect with natural science, but natural science and humanities also intersect and penetrate. There are a large number of new topics to choose from in the cross-disciplinary and infiltration areas. Of course, for researchers, if they want to be comfortable in the overlapping areas, they have to have knowledge in multiple fields at the same time, which is also a challenge to their learning ability.
(6) Selecting topics from academic debates of different academic viewpoints
Scientific research is a kind of creative thinking. Because of people's different cognitive abilities, differences and arguments often occur on the same viewpoint. Therefore, it is also one of the common methods to pay attention to academic disputes, choose from them and extract valuable scientific research topics when doing literature investigation.
Of course, everyone is good at different things. Some people are good at doing theories and others are good at doing experiments. There are thousands of topics, and the one that suits you is the best. For individuals, a good subject is in line with their own interests, with certain challenges, and at the same time within their own capabilities.